Rainer Werner Fassbinder Hardcover - 1997

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Of all the filmmakers who created a new international cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, the young German writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was unquestionably the most prolific and among the most gifted. In more than 40 films, from the 1969 neogangster movie Love is Colder. than Death to the 1980 14-part epic Berlin Alexanderplatz, and such late masterpieces as The Marriage of Maria Braun, he produced a body of work remarkable both in its range and in its sustained focus.

In this book of writings by and about Fassbinder, revealing statements by the artist himself are published in English for the first time. In addition, film historian Thomas Elsaesser and Georgia Brown, film critic for New York City's Village Voice, provide a critical framework that is at once comprehensive and illuminating; and Frankfurt film critic Wolfram Schutte examines Fassbinder's place within postwar German film history. The volume also contains an illustrated filmography and recollections by colleagues and friends, including Fassbinder's editor, Juliane Lorenz, the actresses Hanna Schygulla and Jeanne Moreau, and fellow directors Wim Wenders and Volker schlondorff.