Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film As Private and Public Art

by Wallace Steadman Watson

Overview

Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder introduces scholars and students to the controversial and prolific but brief career of a filmmaker hailed as one of the New German Cinema's most talented exponents. Combining a chronological survey with a thematic exploration, Wallace Steadman Watson reviews the entirety of Fassbinder's artistic output, focusing specifically on fifteen of the filmmaker's thirty-eight feature-length works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570030796
Publisher:	University of South Carolina Press
Publication date:	03/31/1996
Series:	Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
Pages:	341
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Wallace Steadman Watson is a professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he teaches film and modern British and European literature.

Editorial Reviews

Watson provides a far more intelligent analysis of Fassbinder's adaptations than will be found in other books.... It has the heft and feel of a labor of love that is both scholarly and eminently readable, a book that will be consulted for years to come.

Literature/Film Quarterly

"Watson provides a far more intelligent analysis of Fassbinder's adaptations than will be found in other books. . . . It has the heft and feel of a labor of love that is both scholarly and eminently readable, a book that will be consulted for years to come."--Literature/Film Quarterly

From the Publisher

Watson (English, Duquesne U.-Pittsburgh) provides a detailed assessment of the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the controversial and prolific filmmaker associated with New German Cinema which emerged in the 1970s. Watson focuses on 15 of the filmmaker's 38 feature-length works, scrutinizing the financial constraints, material conditions, and script development involved in their production. B&w photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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