„This account includes interesting points of view that compliment and supplement one another as they shed light on a complex film practice and its practitioner.“ (NeoPopRealism Journal, 2011)"A welcome reminder of Fassbinder's astonishing breadth andcontinued resonance, this wide-ranging and brilliant collection ofessays is an indispensable resource.„ -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley
“As varied, replete, and edgy as Fassbinder's workitself, and as deftly edited, this montage of essays takes themeasure not just of an oeuvre but of an epoch.„ -- GarrettStewart, author of Framed Timed: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema
“Few filmmakers in the history of cinema have been asproductive, as important, and as provocative as R. W. Fassbinder. With this stellar collection of essays, theachievements of his career unfold in all their astonishing rangeand diversity, across all their beauties and shocks, with all theirpleasures and difficulties." -- Timothy Corrigan, Universityof Pennsylvania
A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder
herausgegeben von Brigitte PeuckerA Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of itskind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays byan international group of scholars consider this controversialdirector's contribution to German cinema, German history, genderstudies, and auteurship.
* A fresh collection of original research providing diverseperspectives on Fassbinder's work in films, television, poetry, and underground theatre.
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains the preeminent filmmaker ofthe New German Cinema whose brief but prolific body of work spansfrom the latter half of the 1960s to the artist's death in1982.
* Interrogates Fassbinder's influence on the seminal ideasof his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and thecataclysmic events of German twentieth century history
* Contributions from internationally diverse scholarsspecializing in film, culture, and German studies.
* Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of thePlague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), TheBitter 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), BerlinAlexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).
* A fresh collection of original research providing diverseperspectives on Fassbinder's work in films, television, poetry, and underground theatre.
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains the preeminent filmmaker ofthe New German Cinema whose brief but prolific body of work spansfrom the latter half of the 1960s to the artist's death in1982.
* Interrogates Fassbinder's influence on the seminal ideasof his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and thecataclysmic events of German twentieth century history
* Contributions from internationally diverse scholarsspecializing in film, culture, and German studies.
* Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of thePlague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), TheBitter 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), BerlinAlexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).
