Fassbinder: Life and Work of a Provocative Genius - Couverture souple

Thomsen, Christian Braad

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816643644 ISBN 13 : 9780816643646

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Synopsis

The revealing biography of this highly productive and radical film director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was the most innovative practitioner of New German Cinema. He worked at breakneck speed and in fourteen years made forty-four films, including Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978). Fassbinder ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity, and his films detail the desperate yearning for love and freedom and the many ways in which society defeats that desire.

In Fassbinder, Christian Thomsen, a close friend of the director, illuminates Fassbinder's body of work while revealing his insider views of a man who, despite a furious temper, manic working habits, and rampant drug addiction, supported an extended family--including his mother, a string of male lovers, lovelorn women, and even a pair of frustrated wives--with his intoxicating and prolific imagination. This book, like Fassbinder's often-used image of the mirror, brilliantly reflects the sexual, political, and overwhelmingly human contradictions inherent in the life of this intensely creative man and the remarkable films he directed.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christian Braad Thomsen is a Danish filmmaker and scholar.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816643644
• ISBN 13: 9780816643646
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible