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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A brilliant essay on the origins of the movie,
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This review is from: Crash (BFI Modern Classics) (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.
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Concerns Ballard's novel, not Cronenberg's movie,
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This review is from: Crash (BFI Modern Classics) (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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The former day-patient, Vaughan, he had often seen in the back row of his classes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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James Ballard, Cronenberg's Crash, Elizabeth Taylor, Catherine Ballard, James Dean, Deborah Unger, New Worlds, Empire of the Sun, Michael Moorcock, Holly Hunter, Helmut Newton, Chris Petit, Goldhawk Road, Jayne Mansfield, Jeremy Thomas, Rosanna Arquette, David Cronenberg, Gabrielle Drake, Grace Kelly, Sandy Lieberson, Jackie Kennedy, Jerry Cornelius, Kingsley Amis, Marilyn Monroe, William Burroughs New!
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The former day-patient, Vaughan, he had often seen in the back row of his classes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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James Ballard, Cronenberg's Crash, Elizabeth Taylor, Catherine Ballard, James Dean, Deborah Unger, New Worlds, Empire of the Sun, Michael Moorcock, Holly Hunter, Helmut Newton, Chris Petit, Goldhawk Road, Jayne Mansfield, Jeremy Thomas, Rosanna Arquette, David Cronenberg, Gabrielle Drake, Grace Kelly, Sandy Lieberson, Jackie Kennedy, Jerry Cornelius, Kingsley Amis, Marilyn Monroe, William Burroughs New!
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- The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard on 23 pages
- New Worlds: An Anthology by Michael Moorcock on 7 pages
- Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard on 5 pages
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs on 5 pages
- Naked Lunch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by William Burroughs on 5 pages
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