Crash by Iain Sinclair

Crash by Iain Sinclair

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In this book, which includes a new interview with Ballard who wrote the book on which the film was based, Sinclair explores the temporal loop which connects film and novel, and asks questions such as to what extent is Crash a premonition of some of the more remarkable media events of recent times. In the BFI MODERN CLASSICS series.

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Crash by Iain Sinclair

David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) attracted controversy when it was first screened in London, and remain 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 dis-associate themselves from it. And yet it is a controlled, formal film, unsensational; more analytic than titilating. It is an expose 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.
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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ISBN 13 9780851707198
ISBN 10 085170719X
Titel Crash
Autor Iain Sinclair
Serie Bfi Film Classics
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsjahr 1999-04-01
Seitenanzahl 112
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