Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

By Ian Penman,

Book cover of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Book description

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


When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I really enjoy essays and writing about different forms of art, about the genesis of an artwork and the humans who create them, and Ian Penman's book on German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder is among the best of its kind that I've read in recent years.

Written in four weeks to emulate the frantic way Fassbinder scripted and directed his films, this is not a dry, super-detailed biography but a romp through the 1970s and 80s Western European art and history and, at the same time, an ode to the bright screen in the dark room and its powers. 

If you love Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors...

Ad

Book cover of Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure

Tap Dancing on Everest by Mimi Zieman,

Tap Dancing on Everest, part coming-of-age memoir, part true-survival adventure story, is about a young medical student, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor raised in N.Y.C., who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a remote Everest climb in Tibet.

The team attempts a new route up


Want books like Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors.

Browse books like Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Book cover of Mike Nichols: A Life
Book cover of George Lucas: Interviews
Book cover of The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,847

readers submitted
so far, will you?

Ad

📚 If you like Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, you might also like...

Book cover of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China

Bernardine's Shanghai Salon by Susan Blumberg-Kason,

Meet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon.

Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in


Book cover of Loveland

Loveland by Susan Ostrov,

What happens when a feminist who studies romance turns the lens on her own romantic adventures?

Loveland is about how the author came to understand this journey to the far country of love—dating, marriage, a forbidden love affair, an unusual love affair as an older woman—as part of a larger


5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in making movies, Germany, and the Cold War?

Making Movies 43 books
Germany 494 books
The Cold War 265 books