Brigitte Peucker is the Elias Leavenworth Professor of German and a Professor of Film Studies at Yale University. She is the author of many essays on questions of representation in film and literature. Earlier books include Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition (1987), Incorporating Images: Film and the Rival Arts (1995), and The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film (2007).

A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of itskind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays byan international group of scholars consider this controversialdirector's contribution to German cinema, German history, genderstudies, and auteurship.
* A fresh collection of original research providing diverseperspectives on Fassbinder's work in films, television,poetry, and underground theatre.
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains the preeminent filmmaker ofthe New German Cinema whose brief but prolific body of work spansfrom the latter half of the 1960s to the artist's death in1982.
* Interrogates Fassbinder's influence on the seminal ideasof his time: auteurship, identity, race, queer studies, and thecataclysmic events of German twentieth century history
* Contributions from internationally diverse scholarsspecializing in film, culture, and German studies.
* Includes coverage of his key films including: Gods of thePlague (1970), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), TheBitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Martha (1973)(TV), World on a Wire (1973), Effi Briest (1974),Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Fox and His Friends(1975), Fear of Fear (1975), Chinese Roulette(1976), In a Year With 13 Moons (1978), Despair(1978), The Third Generation (1979), BerlinAlexanderplatz (1980) (TV), and Querelle (1982).