A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder Book

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction 1
Brigitte Peucker

Part I Life and Work 15

1 The Other Planet Fassbinder 17
Juliane Lorenz

2 R. W. Fassbinder: Prodigal Son, Not Reconciled? 45
Thomas Elsaesser

3 Rainer "Maria" Fassbinder: Cinema between Literature and Life 53
Leo A. Lensing

4 Five Fassbinder Scenes 67
Wayne Koestenbaum

Part II Genre; Influence; Aesthetics 77

5 Imitation, Seriality, Cinema: Early Fassbinder and Godard 79
Laura McMahon

6 Exposed Bodies; Evacuated Identities 101
Claire Kaiser

7 Redressing the Inaccessible through the Re‐Inscribed Body: In a Year with 13 Moons and Almodóvar’s Bad Education 118
Victor Fan

8 Nudity and the Question: Chinese Roulette 142
Eugenie Brinkema

9 Color, Melodrama, and the Problem of Interiority 159
Brian Price

10 Fassbinder's Work : Style, Sirk, and Queer Labor 181
John David Rhodes

11 A Nagging Physical Discomfort: Fassbinder and Martha 204
Joe McElhaney

12 Beyond the Woman's Film: Reflecting Difference in the Fassbinder Melodrama 226
Nadine Schwakopf

13 Through the Looking Glass: Fassbinder's World on a Wire 245
Brad Prager

Part III Other Texts; Other Media 267

14 Violently Oscillating: Science, Repetition, and Affective Transmutation in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz 269
Elena del Rio

15 In Despair : Performance, Citation, Identity 290
Brigitte Peucker

16 Declined Invitations: Repetition in Fassbinder's Queer "Monomusical" 313
Caryl Flinn

17 Fassbinder's France: Genet's Miseen Scène in Fassbinder's Films 333
Olga Solovieva

18 Un-framing the Image: Theatricality and the Art World of Bitter Tears 352
Brigitte Peucker

19 A Novel Film: Fassbinder's Fontane Effi Briest 372
Elke Siegel

20 Swearing and Forswearing Fidelity in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz 398
Paul Coates

Part IV History; Ideology; Politics 421

21 "There Are Many Ways to Fight a Battle": Young Fassbinder and the Myths of 1968 423
Eric Rentschler

22 A Generation Later and Still Unrepresentable?: Fassbinder and the Red Army Faction 441
Frances Guerin

23 Two Kinds of Excess: Fassbinder and Veit Harlan 461
Laura J. Heins

24 Jolie Laide: Fassbinder, Anti‐Semitism, and the Jewish Image 485
Rosalind Galt

25 Impossible, Impolitic: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Fassbinder's Asynchronous Bodies 502
Elena Gorfinkel

26 "So Much Tenderness": Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, and the Ambivalences of Interracial Desire 516
Tobias Nagl and Janelle Blankenship

27 Rainer, Rosa, and Werner: New Gay Film as Counter-Public 542
Randall Halle

28 Fassbinder's Fox and His Friends and Gay Politics in the 1970s 564
Ronald Gregg

29 Querelle's Finality 579
Roy Grundmann

Selected Bibliography 604

Index 623