Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film as Private and Public Art

by Wallace Steadman Watson

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570030790
• ISBN13: 9781570030796
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"