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Crash
Series: BFI Film Classics
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This book will appeal to readers interested in film studies, literary adaptation, and modern cultural analysis, particularly those fascinated by the works of J.G. Ballard and David Cronenberg's unique cinematic style.
David Cronenberg's Crash brought down a storm of controversy when it was first screened. Iain Sinclair's book studies the relationship between the film and the novel and includes an exclusive and revealing new interview with Ballard.
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David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) attracted controversy when it was first screened in London, and remained banned in 1998 by at least one borough council. The film won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes, only for some members of the jury to disassociate themselves from it. And yet it is a controlled, formal film, unsensational; more analytic than titillating. It is an exposé of modern pathologies. It has almost none of the violence and explicit sexual content of the J.G. Ballard novel from which it is adapted.
So, what is the relationship between Cronenberg's film and Ballard's book? And further, what is the relationship between Ballard himself and the character "James Ballard" in Crash? In this book, which includes an interview with Ballard, Iain Sinclair explores the temporal loop which connects film and novel. If Cronenberg "adapted" Crash, he also absorbed it and made it into something new. Yet, the novel controls the film, or uses the film to disguise its subversive intent.
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ISBN: 9780851707198
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 1999
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Illustration: colour illustrations
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 134.0mm
Height: 188.0mm
Weight: 207g
Pages: 128
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About the Author
Iain Sinclair is a novelist, poet and essayist whose books include the award-winning Downriver (1991), Slow Chocolate Autopsy and the celebrated Lights Out for the Territory (both 1997).
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