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Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

By Ian Penman

By Ian Penman

By Ian Penman

By Ian Penman

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May 02, 2023 | ISBN 9781635901887

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May 02, 2023 | ISBN 9781635901894

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    About 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.

    About 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.

    Product Details

    Category: Film | Performing Arts | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Semiotext(e)
    May 02, 2023 | 200 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781635901887

    Category: Film | Performing Arts | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Semiotext(e)
    May 02, 2023 | 200 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781635901894
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    Praise

    “A book about a film-maker but also, hauntingly, about the way our tastes and passions change over time.”
    —Betsy Reed, The Guardian

    “Sneakily brilliant … Thousands of Mirrors is wise and chatty, keenly observed and casual.”
    —Christine Smallwood, 4Columns

    “A painfully self-interrogating book, at the centre of which is the “monstrous” figure of Fassbinder, a centrifuge of absurd, gargantuan appetites, impossible productivity, heartbreaking melancholy, ever present paranoia, bleak cruelty, volcanic tantrums and rare, dissembling sweetness.”
    —John Douglas Miller, Frieze Magazine

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