Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder : film as private and public art / Wallace Steadman Watson.

Author/creator Watson, Wallace Steadman, 1936-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxviii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Rainer Werner Fassbinder
SeriesUnderstanding modern European and Latin American literature
Understanding modern European and Latin American literature. ^A254529
Contents Fassbinder and his Germany -- Starting out--mostly in the theater -- Film apprenticeship as marathon race -- Reconsidering the holy whore : reflection, reflexivity, and Sirkean melodrama -- Outsiders and underdogs : male melodramas -- "Women's pictures" -- Art out of crisis : the emergence of "late" Fassbinder -- Rewriting Nabokov : the Stoppard/Fassbinder despair -- The "women's picture" as history -- Desire and history : Berlin Alexanderplatz -- New directions (perhaps) and conclusions.
Bibliography noteFilmography: p. 292-305.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 306-321) and index.
LCCN 95041780
ISBN1570030790 (cloth)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1998.3.F37 W38 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold