Synopsis
Fassbinder - The Life and Work of a Provocative Genius
Published by Faber & Faber
In just 14 years he made 44 films, including television films comprising several parts. He also had an active career in the theatre. His death in 1982 marked the end of an important epoch in film history
Fassbinder hurled himself through life with a fury, confronting the materialism of the new Germany, and producing a body of work of astonishing variety
This book attempts to illuminate the complexities of the work, while at the same time as it reveals a man who tried to reconstruct the extended family of his childhood through his relationships with the actors and technicians who followed him from film to film. Christian Braad Thomsen, a friend of Fassbinder's and a film-maker himself, is especially perceptive about Fassbinder's working methods and the specific nature of his cinematic imagination