Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir,essay in fragments, mystery -Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrorsis cult critic Ian Penman's long awaitedfirst original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the lateWest German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder(1945-1982). Written quickly under a self-imposeddeadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself, who wouldoften get films made in a matter of weeks or months,Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrorspresents the filmmakeras a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment betweenlate modernism and the advent of postmodernism andthe digital revolution. Compelling, beautifully writtenand genuinely moving, echoing the fragmentary andreflective works of writers like Barthes and Cioran, thisis a story that has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city,cinema and revolution.