A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 7 (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405191635 ISBN 13: 9781405191630

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

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 this title

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).

From the Back Cover

“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 Time: 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

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-nine 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.

From the Inside Flap

“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 Time: 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

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-nine 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405191635
• ISBN 13: 9781405191630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Peucker Brigitte