Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

By Ian Penman

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163590188X
• ISBN13: 9781635901887
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 7.7"