Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
On Translating Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Acknowledgments
Part I. Cinema between Autobiography and Social Criticism
Part II. Fellow Filmmakers Pro and Con
Part III. Projects and Controversies
Part IV. Literary Past/Cinematic Present
Part V. Monologues and Confessions
Notes
Filmography
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Michael Töteberg is the editor of two volumes of Fassbinder's screenplays. Leo A. Lensing is professor of German and film studies, and Krishna Winston is professor of German, at Wesleyan University.

Reviews

There is plenty in the book to substantiate Fassbinder's position as the exemplary European filmmaker of his day, plenty to back up the claim staked by the films themselves for an engaged and provocative cinema that can rival Hollywood on its own terms. Sight and Sound