Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film as Private and Public Art

Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature

by Wallace Steadman Watson

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.

341 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1996