{"product_id":"fassbinder-christian-braad-thomsen-9780816643646","title":"Fassbinder: The Life and Work of a Provocative Genius","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e The revealing biography of this highly productive and radical film director \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAli: Fear Eats the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) and \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Maria Braun \u003c\/i\u003e(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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFassbinder, \u003c\/i\u003eChristian Thomsen, a close friend of the director, illuminates Fassbinder's body of work while revealing his insider views of a man who, despite a furious temper, manic working habits, and rampant drug addiction, supported an extended family--including his mother, a string of male lovers, lovelorn women, and even a pair of frustrated wives--with his intoxicating and prolific imagination. This book, like Fassbinder's often-used image of the mirror, brilliantly reflects the sexual, political, and overwhelmingly human contradictions inherent in the life of this intensely creative man and the remarkable films he directed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christian Braad Thomsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816643644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816643646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.86w x 0.80d","brand":"Christian Braad Thomsen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077903872255,"sku":"9780816643646","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cffc3507-51a4-415b-ab3f-c26e22075271.jpg?v=1685472416","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fassbinder-christian-braad-thomsen-9780816643646","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}