- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: British Film Institute; 1 edition (Jan 22 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 085170719X
- ISBN-13: 978-0851707198
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.6 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #636,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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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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3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A brilliant essay on the origins of the movie, Jun 1 2000
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This review is from: Crash (Paperback)
As a fan of Ballard I am definitely not a fan of Cronenberg, whom I find superficial, sensational and laddish in the extreme. The movie extracted the least interesting elements of the book and turned them into a kind of techno-porn which I associated with Cronenberg's preferred genre before this book. Now I have a clearer idea of what disturbs me about Cronenberg's versions of books which I have admired -- including The Naked Lunch -- and Sinclair subtly teases out the woman-hating elements which are in both Ballard and Cronenberg, attacks the specious nature of the treatment and reveals the film for the piece of faux-auterism that it is. I didn't know why I didn't like Crash until I read Sinclair and Sinclair in no way attacks the film. He just collects the evidence and presents it. A respected film maker himself (Cardinal and the Corpse, The Falconer, Asylum) Sinclair must be one of the smartest critics in the business. I always follow his essays in the London Review of Books and would recommend them. Sinclair may make films about 'illuminati' but he is himself wonderfully illuminating. I can't recommend this clever, precise essay enough.
7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Concerns Ballard's novel, not Cronenberg's movie, Aug 11 1999
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This review is from: Crash (Paperback)
Sinclair all but ignores David Cronenberg's adaptation of "Crash," focusing instead on Ballard's novels "Crash" and "The Atrocity Exhibition." Unfortunately, he offers little fresh insight into these seminal works.The BFI series are supposed to be about FILMS, not the novels that inspired them.
The RE/Search volume on J. G. Ballard still remains the best introduction to his work, rendering Sinclair's book unnecessary.
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