A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Published on 4. January 2012
656 pages
978-1-4443-5405-8 (ISBN)
Description
A 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).
Reviews / Votes
"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 PennsylvaniaMore details
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Brigitte Peucker is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German and a Professor of Film Studies at Yale University. Peucker 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).
Content
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Brigitte Peucker
Part I Life and Work 15
1 The Other Planet Fassbinder 17
Juliane Lorenz
2 R. W. Fassbinder: Prodigal Son, Not Reconciled? 45
Thomas Elsaesser
3 Rainer "Maria" Fassbinder: Cinema between Literature and Life53
Leo A. Lensing
4 Five Fassbinder Scenes 67
Wayne Koestenbaum
Part II Genre; Influence; Aesthetics 77
5 Imitation, Seriality, Cinema: Early Fassbinder and Godard79
Laura McMahon
6 Exposed Bodies; Evacuated Identities 101
Claire Kaiser
7 Redressing the Inaccessible through the Re-InscribedBody: In a Year with 13 Moons and Almodóvar'sBad Education 118
Victor Fan
8 Nudity and the Question: Chinese Roulette 142
Eugenie Brinkema
9 Color, Melodrama, and the Problem of Interiority 159
Brian Price
10 Fassbinder's Work : Style, Sirk, and Queer Labor181
John David Rhodes
11 A Nagging Physical Discomfort: Fassbinder and Martha204
Joe McElhaney
12 Beyond the Woman's Film: Reflecting Difference in theFassbinder Melodrama 226
Nadine Schwakopf
13 Through the Looking Glass: Fassbinder's World on aWire 245
Brad Prager
Part III Other Texts; Other Media 267
14 Violently Oscillating: Science, Repetition, and AffectiveTransmutation in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz269
Elena del Rio
15 In Despair : Performance, Citation, Identity 290
Brigitte Peucker
16 Declined Invitations: Repetition in Fassbinder's Queer"Monomusical" 313
Caryl Flinn
17 Fassbinder's France: Genet's Miseen Scène inFassbinder's Films 333
Olga Solovieva
18 Un-framing the Image: Theatricality and the Art World ofBitter Tears 352
Brigitte Peucker
19 A Novel Film: Fassbinder's Fontane Effi Briest372
Elke Siegel
20 Swearing and Forswearing Fidelity in Fassbinder's BerlinAlexanderplatz 398
Paul Coates
Part IV History; Ideology; Politics 421
21 "There Are Many Ways to Fight a Battle": Young Fassbinder andthe Myths of 1968 423
Eric Rentschler
22 A Generation Later and Still Unrepresentable?: Fassbinder andthe Red Army Faction 441
Frances Guerin
23 Two Kinds of Excess: Fassbinder and Veit Harlan 461
Laura J. Heins
24 Jolie Laide: Fassbinder, Anti-Semitism, and the JewishImage 485
Rosalind Galt
25 Impossible, Impolitic: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul andFassbinder's Asynchronous Bodies 502
Elena Gorfinkel
26 "So Much Tenderness": Rainer Werner Fassbinder, GüntherKaufmann, and the Ambivalences of Interracial Desire 516
Tobias Nagl and Janelle Blankenship
27 Rainer, Rosa, and Werner: New Gay Film as Counter-Public542
Randall Halle
28 Fassbinder's Fox and His Friends and Gay Politics inthe 1970s 564
Ronald Gregg
29 Querelle's Finality 579
Roy Grundmann
Selected Bibliography 604
Index 623
