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Fassbinder: The Life And Work Of A Provocative Genius
Christian Braad Thomsen
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Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; APFA; APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
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 ... Read more Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816643646
SKU
V9780816643646
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About Christian Braad Thomsen
Christian Braad Thomsen is a Danish filmmaker and scholar.
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