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Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre

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Using extensive and untapped archival material as well as a series of in-depth interviews with Fassbinder's main theatre associates, this book offers commentary on and insights into Fassbinder's plays, his dramaturgies and staging practice. David Barnett helps to unlock the much discussed theatricality of Fassbinder's films by showing its many concrete sources. The first study of Fassbinder's work in the theatre, as a playwright and director, this book gives a full contextualisation of his work within the upheavals of its times. Readers are introduced to the cultural history of the West German theatre in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Radicalism in society meets experiment on stage as Fassbinder emerges from the cellar theatre scene of Munich, co-founds the antiteater and is then integrated into the most subsidised theatre in Europe, before being offered his own theatre to run for one fateful season.

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ISBN: 9780521107242
Publication date: 2nd April 2009
Author: David University College Dublin Barnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 316 pages
Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
Genres: Theatre studies