false 13470 0 0 23952 0851708706 9780851708706 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167484358m/23952.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167484358s/23952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23952.Trainspotting 4.22 9 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.]]> 13470 4.09 82 28 2002 4438917 0745136702 9780745136707 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4438917.Stone_Dancer 4.50 2 13470 4.09 82 28 1995 37250 140515411X 9781405154116 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168872953m/37250.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168872953s/37250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37250.Thinking_Through_Cinema_Film_As_Philosophy 4.00 2 13470 4.09 82 28 2006 37247 019818347X 9780198183471 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37247.Engaging_Characters_Fiction_Emotion_and_the_Cinema 3.50 2 tangential fashion. Engaging Characters presents a precise discussion of the varieties of emotional response to films, integrating them into a larger theory of our engagement (or "identification") with characters in both cinematic and literary fictions. Films and filmmakers discussed include The
Accused; Hitchcock (including detailed analyses of The Man Who Knew Too Much [1956] and Saboteur); Godard; Ruiz; Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire; Dovzhenko's Arsenal and Preminger's Daisy Kenyon; Bresson's L'Argent; Eisenstein's Strike; and Melville's Le Doulos.]]> 13470 4.09 82 28 1995 3076542 0671784684 9780671784683 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3076542.Devil_s_Juggler 3.00 2 13470 4.09 82 28 1993 767446 0198159218 9780198159216 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178168854m/767446.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178168854s/767446.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767446.Film_Theory_and_Philosophy 5.00 1 13470 4.09 82 28 154324 3.52 97 21 1998 7117096 0671784641 9780671784645 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7117096-devil-s-juggler 0.0 0 13470 4.09 82 28 3140638 0.0 0 0 1993 6728154 0754002748 9780754002741 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6728154-legacy 0.0 0 13470 4.09 82 28 427892 0.0 0 0 1999 6282806 0921835426 9780921835424 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6282806.Mental_Skills_for_the_Artistic_Sports 0.0 0 13470 4.09 82 28 1998 6159537 0140242902 9780140242904 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6159537.Killing_Time 0.0 0 13470 4.09 82 28 1995