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Crash: BFI Film Classics

31-Mar-99
112 pages
Published/distributed by BFI Publishing
ISBN/EAN: 9780851707198
Paperback
Price: £9.99
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Crash: BFI Film Classics 
Sinclair, Iain
David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) brought down a storm of controversy when it was first screened and remains banned 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's a cool, controlled, formal film, unsensational, more analytic than titillating. A brilliant expos 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.

In this book, which includes an exclusive and revealing new interview with Ballard, Iain Sinclair explores the uncanny temporal loop which connects film and novel. If Cronenberg 'adapted' Crash, he also absorbed it and made it into something new. To what extent, for example, is Crash a premonition of some of the more remarkable media events of recent times?
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