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Title A companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder / edited by Brigitte Peucker.
Published Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.


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Description xiv, 639 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN 9781405191630 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1405191635 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [604]-622) and index.
Contents Introduction / Brigitte Peucker -- pt. 1. Life and work. The other planet Fassbinder / Juliane Lorenz -- R. W. Fassbinder : prodigal son, not reconciled? / Thomas Elsaesser -- Rainer "Maria" Fassbinder : cinema between literature and life / Leo A. Lensing -- Five Fassbinder scenes / Wayne Koestenbaum -- pt. 2. Genre-influence-aesthetics. Imitation, seriality, cinema : early Fassbinder and Godard / Laura McMahon -- Exposed bodies-evacuated identities / Claire Kaiser -- Redressing the inaccessible through the re-inscribed body : in a year with 13 Moons and Almodovar's Bad education / Victor Fan -- Nudity and the question : Chinese roulette / Eugenie Brinkema -- Color, melodrama, and the problem of interiority / Brian Price -- Fassbinder's work : style, sirk, and queer labor / John David Rhodes -- A nagging physical discomfort : Fassbinder and Martha / Joe McElhaney -- Beyond the woman's film : reflecting difference in the Fassbinder melodrama / Nadine Schwakopf -- Through the looking glass : Fassbinder's World on a wire / Brad Prager -- pt. 3. Other texts-other media. Violently oscillating : science, repetition, and affective transmutation in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Elena del Rio -- In despair : performance, citation, identity / Brigitte Peucker -- Declined invitations : repetition in Fassbinder's queer "Monomusical" / Caryl Flinn -- Fassbinder's France : Genet's mise-en-scene in Fassbinder's films / Olga Solovieva -- Un-framing the image : theatricality and the art world of bitter tears / Brigitte Peucker -- A novel film : Fassbinder's Fontane Effi Briest / Elke Siegel -- Swearing and forswearing fidelity in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Paul Coates -- pt. 4. History-Ideology-Politics. "There are many ways to fight a battle" : Young Fassbinder and the myths of 1968 / Eric Rentschler -- A generation later and still unrepresentable? Fassbinder and the Red Army fraction / Frances Guerin -- Two kinds of excess : Fassbinder and Veit Harlan / Laura J. Heins -- Jolie Laide: Fassbinder, anti-Semitism, and the Jewish image / Rosalind Galt -- Impossible, impolitic : Ali : Fear eats the soul and Fassbinder's asynchronous bodies / Elena Gorfinkel -- "So much tenderness" : Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Gunther Kaufmann, and the ambivalences of interracial desire / Tobias Nagl and Janelle Blankenship -- Rainer, Rosa, and Werner : new gay film as counter-public / Randall Halle -- Fassbinder's Fox and His Friends and gay politics in the 1970s / Ronald Gregg -- Querelle is finality / Roy Grundmann.
Series Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.
Library Class Theatre KF200
Subject Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Other Author Peucker, Brigitte.

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