Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film as Private and Public Art (First Edition)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder] Wallace Steadman Watson

ISBN 10: 1570030790 / ISBN 13: 9781570030796

Published by University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 1996

About this Item

First Edition. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film as Private and Public Art (First Edition)
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570030790
• ISBN 13: 9781570030796
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Seller catalogs:
  • Film Books
  • Directors
  • German Cinema

About this title

Synopsis

A comprehensive, balanced review of Fassbinder's life and career

Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder introduces scholars and students to the controversial and prolific but brief career of a filmmaker hailed as one of the New German Cinema's most talented exponents. Combining a chronological survey with a thematic exploration, Wallace Steadman Watson reviews the entirety of Fassbinder's artistic output, focusing specifically on fifteen of the filmmaker's thirty-eight feature-length works. Watson's interpretations of these films, all of which he studied in Germany, scrutinize the financial constraints, material conditions, and script development involved in their production.

Watson draws on a wide assortment of Fassbinder interviews―many of which are not available in English―and on theoretical and critical approaches employed in the Frankfort School, performance and reception theories, gay and lesbian film theory, and studies of melodrama and camp. Watson also incorporates his own interviews with Fassbinder's mother and with the woman who served as Fassbinder's film editor and companion during the final four years of his life.

About the Author

Wallace Steadman Watson is a professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he teaches film and modern British and European literature.