A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder Peucker Hardback Wiley–Blackwell

A Companion to Rainer Werner FassbinderAuthor(s): Brigitte Peucker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405191630, 978-1405191630\nSynopsis\nA Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder 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.\n\nA fresh collection of original research providing diverse perspectives on Fassbinders work in films, television, poetry, and underground theatre.\nRainer 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 artists death in 1982.\nInterrogates Fassbinders influence on the seminal ideas of his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and the cataclysmic events of German twentieth cent.