A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

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"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."

"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."

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.