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).
