{"product_id":"fassbinder-thousands-of-mirrors-9781635901887","title":"Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors","description":"\u003cb\u003eA kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMelodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, \u003ci\u003eThousands of Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThousands of Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIan Penman is a British writer, music journalist, and critic. He began his career at the \u003ci\u003eNME\u003c\/i\u003e in 1977, later contributing to various publications including \u003ci\u003eThe Face\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArena\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUncut\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSight \u0026amp; Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCity Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eVital Signs: Music, Movies, and Other Manias\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIt Gets Me Home, This Curving Track\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50603251925266,"sku":"9781635901887","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_464c17a4-52f2-439e-b1fb-aa2b183a56d5.jpg?v=1732245622","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fassbinder-thousands-of-mirrors-9781635901887","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}