Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors - Ian Penman

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir,�essay in fragments, mystery -�Fassbinder Thousands�of Mirrors�is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited�first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late�West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder�(1945-1982). Written quickly under a self-imposed�deadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself, who would�often get films made in a matter of weeks or months,�Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors�presents the filmmaker�as a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment between�late modernism and the advent of postmodernism and�the digital revolution. Compelling, beautifully written�and genuinely moving, echoing the fragmentary and�reflective works of writers like Barthes and Cioran, this�is a story that has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city,�cinema and revolution.