Fassbinder Thousands of mirrors
Book - 2023
"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."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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South Pasadena, CA :
Semiotext(e)
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 195 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781635901887