{"product_id":"a-companion-to-rainer-werner-fassbinder-isbn-9781405191630","title":"A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA fresh collection of original research providing diverse perspectives on Fassbinder’s work in films, television, poetry, and underground theatre.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRainer 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInterrogates Fassbinder’s influence on the seminal ideas of his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and the cataclysmic events of German twentieth century history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributions from internationally diverse scholars specializing in film, culture, and German studies.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes coverage of his key films including: \u003ci\u003eGods of the Plague\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), \u003ci\u003eBeware of a Holy Whore\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eThe Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), \u003ci\u003eMartha\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) (TV), \u003ci\u003eWorld on a Wire\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eEffi Briest\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), \u003ci\u003eAli: Fear Eats the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), \u003ci\u003eFox and His Friends\u003c\/i\u003e (1975),  \u003ci\u003eFear of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), \u003ci\u003eChinese Roulette\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), \u003ci\u003eIn a Year With 13 Moons\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), \u003ci\u003eDespair\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), \u003ci\u003eThe Third Generation\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e (1980) (TV), and \u003ci\u003eQuerelle\u003c\/i\u003e (1982).\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Notes on Contributors viii  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrigitte Peucker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Life and Work 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Other Planet Fassbinder 17\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJuliane Lorenz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 R. W. Fassbinder: Prodigal Son, Not Reconciled? 45\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Elsaesser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Rainer \"Maria\" Fassbinder: Cinema between Literature and Life 53\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeo A. Lensing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Five Fassbinder Scenes 67\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWayne Koestenbaum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Genre; Influence; Aesthetics 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Imitation, Seriality, Cinema: Early Fassbinder and Godard 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura McMahon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Exposed Bodies; Evacuated Identities 101\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClaire Kaiser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Redressing the Inaccessible through the Re‐Inscribed Body: \u003ci\u003eIn a Year with 13 Moons\u003c\/i\u003e and Almodóvar’s \u003ci\u003eBad Education\u003c\/i\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVictor Fan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Nudity and the Question: \u003ci\u003eChinese Roulette\u003c\/i\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEugenie Brinkema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Color, Melodrama, and the Problem of Interiority 159\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian Price\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Fassbinder's \u003ci\u003eWork\u003c\/i\u003e : Style, Sirk, and Queer Labor 181\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn David Rhodes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 A Nagging Physical Discomfort: Fassbinder and \u003ci\u003eMartha\u003c\/i\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoe McElhaney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Beyond the Woman's Film: Reflecting Difference in the Fassbinder Melodrama 226\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNadine Schwakopf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Through the Looking Glass: Fassbinder's \u003ci\u003eWorld on a Wire\u003c\/i\u003e 245\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrad Prager\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Other Texts; Other Media 267\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Violently Oscillating: Science, Repetition, and Affective Transmutation in Fassbinder's \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e 269\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElena del Rio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 In \u003ci\u003eDespair\u003c\/i\u003e : Performance, Citation, Identity 290\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrigitte Peucker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Declined Invitations: Repetition in Fassbinder's Queer \"Monomusical\" 313\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCaryl Flinn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Fassbinder's France: Genet's \u003ci\u003eMiseen Scène\u003c\/i\u003e in Fassbinder's Films 333\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOlga Solovieva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Un-framing the Image: Theatricality and the Art World of \u003ci\u003eBitter Tears\u003c\/i\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrigitte Peucker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 A Novel Film: Fassbinder's \u003ci\u003eFontane Effi Briest\u003c\/i\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElke Siegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Swearing and Forswearing Fidelity in Fassbinder's \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Coates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV History; Ideology; Politics 421\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 \"There Are Many Ways to Fight a Battle\": Young Fassbinder and the Myths of 1968 423\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric Rentschler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 A Generation Later and Still Unrepresentable?: Fassbinder and the Red Army Faction 441\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrances Guerin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Two Kinds of Excess: Fassbinder and Veit Harlan 461\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura J. Heins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Jolie Laide: Fassbinder, Anti‐Semitism, and the Jewish Image 485\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRosalind Galt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Impossible, Impolitic: \u003ci\u003eAli: Fear Eats the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e and Fassbinder's Asynchronous Bodies 502\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElena Gorfinkel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 \"So Much Tenderness\": Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, and the Ambivalences of Interracial Desire 516\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTobias Nagl and Janelle Blankenship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Rainer, Rosa, and Werner: New Gay Film as Counter-Public 542\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRandall Halle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Fassbinder's \u003ci\u003eFox and His Friends\u003c\/i\u003e and Gay Politics in the 1970s 564\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRonald Gregg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 \u003ci\u003eQuerelle\u003c\/i\u003e's Finality 579\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoy Grundmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography 604\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 623\u003c\/p\u003e \"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) \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrigitte Peucker\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eIncorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eand The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“A welcome reminder of Fassbinder’s astonishing breadth and continued resonance, this wide-ranging and brilliant collection of essays is an indispensable resource.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGarrett Stewart, author of\u003c\/i\u003e Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.   “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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988614562021,"sku":"NP9781405191630","price":191.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405191630.jpg?v=1761780978","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-rainer-werner-fassbinder-isbn-9781405191630","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}