A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peucker,brigitte

ISBN 10: 1405191635 / ISBN 13: 9781405191630

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2012

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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. Editor(s): Peucker, Brigitte. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors. Num Pages: 656 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 179 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1154. . 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405191635
• ISBN 13: 9781405191630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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).

About the Author

Brigitte Peucker is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German and a Professor of Film Studies at Yale University. She is the author of many essays on questions of representation in film and literature. Earlier books include Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition (1987), Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts (1995), and The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film (2007).