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A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

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).

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Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Capstone
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444354058
• Artikelnr.: 38308979

Rezensionen

"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 Timed: 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

"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)