First published in 1957, this work of film theory analyses the process by which novels are transformed into films. Beginning with a discussion of the aesthetic limits of both the novel... Læs mere
The writing in this volume-nearly all presented here for the first time in English-are an essential part of Fassbinder's legacy, the remarkable body of work in which present-day German reality finds brilliant expression.
Ranging from the Renaissance pastoral to Coleridge to Sartre and Beckett, The Fictive and the Imaginary is a distinguished work of scholarship from one of Europe's most respected and influential critics.