Magnificent Obsessions: The Explosive Genius of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Autores: Martin Brady
• Localización: Sight & sound, ISSN 0037-4806, Vol. 27, Nº 5, 2017, págs. 20-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The extraordinary career of the prolific German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died of an overdose at the age of just 37, contained multitudes. Over 14 pages, we take a look at some of the themes that defined his mercurial talent:

    ◦Magnificent Obsessions: an introduction by Martin Brady ◦The Outsider: Tony Rayns on RWF’s fascination with ‘otherness’ ◦The Mirror to Germany: Martin Brady on RWF’s Munich roots and relationship to the New German Cinema ◦The Aesthete: Margaret Deriaz on RWF’s attitude to art ◦The Ladies’ Man: Erica Carter on RWF’s instrumental use of female figures ◦The Victim and the Victimiser: Elena Gorfinkel on the centrality of subjection, humiliation and interdependence in Fassbinder’s worldview ◦The Collaborator: Tony Rayns on RWF’s tyranny over his troupes ◦The Formal Innovator: Mattias Frey on RWF’s experiments across theatre, film and television ◦The Stylist: Andrew Webber on RWF’s varying modes of aesthetic expression