Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir,Aessay in fragments, mystery ?”AFassbinder ThousandsAof MirrorsAis cult critic Ian Penman?Ts long awaitedAfirst original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the lateAWest German filmmaker Rainer Werner FassbinderA(1945?”1982). Written quickly under a self-imposedAdeadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself, who wouldAoften get films made in a matter of weeks or months,AFassbinder Thousands of MirrorsApresents the filmmakerAas a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment betweenAlate modernism and the advent of postmodernism andAthe digital revolution. Compelling, beautifully writtenAand genuinely moving, echoing the fragmentary andAreflective works of writers like Barthes and Cioran, thisAis a story that has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city,Acinema and revolution.; 200 pages; 19/04/2023