A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder



2/2012
Ed.: Brigitte Peucker
WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors .
2012. 656 p. 252 mm
.1A405191630


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Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Brigitte Peucker
Part I Life and Work 15
1 The Other Planet Fassbinder 17
Juliane Lorenz
2 R. W. Fassbinder: Prodigal Son, Not Reconciled? 45
Thomas Elsaesser
3 Rainer "Maria" Fassbinder: Cinema between Literature and Life 53
Leo A. Lensing
4 Five Fassbinder Scenes 67
Wayne Koestenbaum
Part II Genre; Influence; Aesthetics 77
5 Imitation, Seriality, Cinema: Early Fassbinder and Godard 79
Laura McMahon
6 Exposed Bodies; Evacuated Identities 101
Claire Kaiser
7 Redressing the Inaccessible through the Re

A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a groundbreaking collection. The first to engage fully with this important figure, whose untimely death in 1982 is said to have marked the end of New German cinema. Twenty-eight chapters consider this controversial director's contribution to German cinema, German history, gender and queer studies, and auteurship. Riding a wave of renewed interest in Fassbinder as a result of the increasing availability of his work, this collection puts the enigmatic director, actor, and character in context and considers the reach of his influence on a new generation of film makers.
These contributions by an international group of scholars provide a range of multiple perspectives through which Fassbinder emerges as an even more engagingly complex--and more brilliant--auteur than ever before. A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its kind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays by an international group of scholars consider this controversial director's contribution to German cinema, German history, gender studies, and auteurship.
A fresh collection of original research providing diverse perspectives on Fassbinder's work in films, television, poetry, and underground theatre.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains the preeminent filmmaker of the New German Cinema whose brief but prolific body of work spans from the latter half of the 1960s to the artist's death in 1982.
Interrogates Fassbinder's influence on the seminal ideas of his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and the cataclysmic events of German twentieth century history
Contributions from internationally diverse scholars specializing in film, culture, and German studies.
Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of the Plague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1973) (TV), World on a Wire (1973), Effi Briest (1974), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Fox and His Friends (1975), Fear of Fear (1975), Chinese Roulette (1976), In a Year With 13 Moons (1978), Despair (1978), The Third Generation (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).

"A welcome reminder of Fassbinder's astonishing breadth and continued resonance, this wide-ranging and brilliant collection of essays is an indispensable resource." -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley "As varied, replete, and edgy as Fassbinder's work itself, and as deftly edited, this montage of essays takes the measure not just of an oeuvre but of an epoch." -- Garrett Stewart, author of Framed Timed: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema "Few filmmakers in the history of cinema have been as productive, as important, and as provocative as R. W. Fassbinder. With this stellar collection of essays, the achievements of his career unfold in all their astonishing range and diversity, across all their beauties and shocks, with all their pleasures and difficulties." -- Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania

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Fassbinder, Rainer W.  Fassbinder, Rainer Werner  Film / Regisseure  Regisseure/-Innen (Einzelne Personen)