Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long-awaited first full-length book: a kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Written over a short period "in the spirit" of RWF, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as Penman's equivalent of what Baudelaire was to Benjamin: an urban poet in the turbulent, seeds-sown, messy era just before everything changed. Beautifully written and extraordinarily compelling, echoing the fragmentary works of Roland Barthes and Emil Cioran, Eduardo Galeano and Alexander Kluge, this story has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city, cinema, and revolution.

Author: Ian Penman
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781635901887
ISBN10: 163590188X
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Literary Criticism | European | German

About the Author
Ian Penman is a British writer, music journalist, and critic. He began his career at the NME in 1977, later contributing to various publications including The Face, Arena, Tatler, Uncut, Sight & Sound, The Wire, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and City Journal. He is the author of Vital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Manias and It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track.