My Beautiful Laundrette
Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2004
128 pages
978-0-85771-500-5 (ISBN)
Description
Described by Stuart Hall as 'one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years', My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Omar, member of a Pakistani family 'getting ahead' in 1980s Thatcher's Britain is charged to make over a rundown launderette, and in the process falls in love with the brooding Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis in career-making form). Christine Geraghty interrogates My Beautiful Laundrette as a crossover film: between television and cinema, realism and fantasy, and as an independent film targeting a popular audience. She deftly shows how it has remained an important and watchable film in the 1990s and early 2000s and her exploration of the film itself is a remarkable, original and entertaining achievement.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
20 b/w illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-85771-500-5 (9780857715005)
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Book
10/2004
I.B. Tauris
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Person
Christine Geraghty is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the 'New Look' and Women and Soap Opera and co-editor of The Television Studies Book.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Film Credits
- Introduction
- ONE. Crossing over: The Making of the Film
- TWO. Transformations: Film Analysis
- THREE. Continuations: Laundrette's Reputation
- Notes
