Description: Television, Tabloids, and Tears : Fassbinder and Popular Culture, Paperback by Shattuc, Jane, ISBN 0816624550, ISBN-13 9780816624553, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Television, Tabloids, and Tears was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses technology to make long-unavailabls once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "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, was chosen to direct Berlin Alexanderplatz, Germany's longest, costliest, and most widely viewed television drama. Shattuc exposes the dichotomy of institutional support for this project versus the scandalous controversial reputation of Fassbinder as a gay man who flaunted his sexuality and involvement with drugs. Fassbinder built his reputation on two separate images of the director-the faithful adapter and the underground star; with Berlin Alexanderplatz these two identities came together explosively. Tracing the two artistic paths that led Fassbinder to this moment, Shattuc offers us a look at cultural class divisions in Germany. Her account of Fassbinder's history as an Autor reveals both the triumph and the failure of bourgeois cultural domination in postwar West Germany.
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Book Title: Television, Tabloids, and Tears : Fassbinder and Popular Culture
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Television, Tabloids, and Tears : Fassbinder and Popular Culture
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 1995
Subject: Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / Direction & Production
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 14.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Performing Arts
Author: Jane Shattuc
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Book, Other
