Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A 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.

• A fresh collection of original research providing diverse
  perspectives on Fassbinder's work in films, television,
  poetry, and underground theatre.

• Rainer 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.

• Interrogates Fassbinder's influence on the seminal ideas
  of his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and the
  cataclysmic events of German twentieth century history

• Contributions from internationally diverse scholars
  specializing in film, culture, and German studies.

• Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of the
  Plague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The
  Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1973)
  (TV), World on a Wire (1973), Effi Briest (1974),
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Fox and His Friends
  (1975), Fear of Fear (1975), Chinese Roulette
  (1976), In a Year With 13 Moons (1978), Despair
  (1978), The Third Generation (1979), Berlin
  Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).

Autorentext

Brigitte Peucker 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 Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition (1987), Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts (1995), and The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film (2007).

Zusammenfassung
A 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.

• A fresh collection of original research providing diverse perspectives on Fassbinder's work in films, television, poetry, and underground theatre.
• Rainer 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.
• Interrogates Fassbinder's influence on the seminal ideas of his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and the cataclysmic events of German twentieth century history
• Contributions from internationally diverse scholars specializing in film, culture, and German studies.
• Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of the Plague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1973) (TV), World on a Wire (1973), Effi Briest (1974), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Fox and His Friends (1975), Fear of Fear (1975), Chinese Roulette (1976), In a Year With 13 Moons (1978), Despair (1978), The Third Generation (1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).

Inhalt

Notes 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