附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments; 1 The Melodrama of Fassbinder's Reception; 2 Engineering a Democracy through Autorenfilm: The Political Context of Television's Support of Fassbinder; 3 Fassbinder as a Popular Auteur: The Making of an Authorial Legend; 4 Shock Pop: Fassbinder and the Aesthetics of the German Counterculture; 5 The Textual Fassbinder: Two Institutional Genres; 6 Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Interplay of Fassbinder's Textual Voices; 7 The Popular Reception of Berlin Alexanderplatz; 8 Conclusion; Works; Appendixes; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
摘要:I am Biberkopf, Rainer Werner Fassbinder declared, aligning himself with the protagonist of his widely seen television adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz. The statement provoked an unprecedented national debate about what constituted an acceptable German artist and who has the power to determine art. More than any recent German director, Fassbinder embodied this debate, and Jane Shattuc shows us how much this can tell us, not just about the man and his work, but also about the state of "culture" in Germany. It is fascinating in itself that Fassbinder, a highly controversial public f.