Television, tabloids, and tears : Fassbinder and popular culture / Jane Shattuc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shattuc, Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Television program).

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982--Criticism and interpretation.

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 figure, w

Contents:

Contents; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8595-9

OCLC:

476093726