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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review"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)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
Brigitte Peucker
Part I Life and Work 15
1 The Other Planet Fassbinder 17
Juliane Lorenz
2 R. W. Fassbinder: Prodigal Son, Not Reconciled? 45
Thomas Elsaesser
3 Rainer "Maria" Fassbinder: Cinema between Literature and Life 53
Leo A. Lensing
4 Five Fassbinder Scenes 67
Wayne Koestenbaum
Part II Genre; Influence; Aesthetics 77
5 Imitation, Seriality, Cinema: Early Fassbinder and Godard 79
Laura McMahon
6 Exposed Bodies; Evacuated Identities 101
Claire Kaiser
7 Redressing the Inaccessible through the Re‐Inscribed Body: In a Year with 13 Moons and Almodóvar’s Bad Education 118
Victor Fan
8 Nudity and the Question: Chinese Roulette 142
Eugenie Brinkema
9 Color, Melodrama, and the Problem of Interiority 159
Brian Price
10 Fassbinder's Work : Style, Sirk, and Queer Labor 181
John David Rhodes
11 A Nagging Physical Discomfort: Fassbinder and Martha 204
Joe McElhaney
12 Beyond the Woman's Film: Reflecting Difference in the Fassbinder Melodrama 226
Nadine Schwakopf
13 Through the Looking Glass: Fassbinder's World on a Wire 245
Brad Prager
Part III Other Texts; Other Media 267
14 Violently Oscillating: Science, Repetition, and Affective Transmutation in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz 269
Elena del Rio
15 In Despair : Performance, Citation, Identity 290
Brigitte Peucker
16 Declined Invitations: Repetition in Fassbinder's Queer "Monomusical" 313
Caryl Flinn
17 Fassbinder's France: Genet's Miseen Scène in Fassbinder's Films 333
Olga Solovieva
18 Un-framing the Image: Theatricality and the Art World of Bitter Tears 352
Brigitte Peucker
19 A Novel Film: Fassbinder's Fontane Effi Briest 372
Elke Siegel
20 Swearing and Forswearing Fidelity in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz 398
Paul Coates
Part IV History; Ideology; Politics 421
21 "There Are Many Ways to Fight a Battle": Young Fassbinder and the Myths of 1968 423
Eric Rentschler
22 A Generation Later and Still Unrepresentable?: Fassbinder and the Red Army Faction 441
Frances Guerin
23 Two Kinds of Excess: Fassbinder and Veit Harlan 461
Laura J. Heins
24 Jolie Laide: Fassbinder, Anti‐Semitism, and the Jewish Image 485
Rosalind Galt
25 Impossible, Impolitic: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Fassbinder's Asynchronous Bodies 502
Elena Gorfinkel
26 "So Much Tenderness": Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, and the Ambivalences of Interracial Desire 516
Tobias Nagl and Janelle Blankenship
27 Rainer, Rosa, and Werner: New Gay Film as Counter-Public 542
Randall Halle
28 Fassbinder's Fox and His Friends and Gay Politics in the 1970s 564
Ronald Gregg
29 Querelle's Finality 579
Roy Grundmann
Selected Bibliography 604
Index 623
