A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (PDF)

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).