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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
Fabric Type: 9780851708706
Fax Number: illustrated edition
Legal Disclaimer: 0851708706
Maximum Color Depth: British Film Institute
Metal Type: British Film Institute
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 96
Total External Bays Free: March 29, 2002
Total Firewire Ports: British Film Institute
Total Parallel Ports: January 22, 2008
British Film Institute
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Illustrated In 1996, Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Produced by Andrew MacDonald, scripted by John Hodge, and directed by Danny Boyle-the team behind Shallow Grave (1994)-Trainspotting was an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's barbed novel of the same title. The film is crucial for understanding British culture in the context of devolution and the rise of "Cool Britannia." Murray Smith unpicks the processes that led to Trainspotting's enormous success. He isolates various factors-the film's eclectic soundtrack, its depiction of Scottish identity, its attitude to deprivation, drugs and violence, its traffic with American cultural forms, its synthesis of realist and fantastic elements, and its complicated relationship to "heritage"-that make Trainspotting such a vivid document of its time. Although it heralded a false dawn for British filmmaking, Trainspotting is, Smith concludes, both authentically vernacular and yet transnational in its influences and ambitions.
Book Description:
In this book, Murray Smith unpicks the processes that led to the enormous success of Trainspotting. He isolates the various factors that make Trainspotting such a vivid document of its time.
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