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The unfilmable on film

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JG Ballard, CrashArticle from John Patterson in the Guardian on ‘unfilmable’ novels, including Crash – “…various works of Henry Miller, Pauline Réage, Jean Genet, James Joyce, JG Ballard and William Burroughs, all of which thronged with penises, vaginas, wayward sexuality, raw sodomy, extensive heroin use or maximum sicko violence, have made it to the screen, prompting short-lived expressions of civic and critical outrage. Certain of the last-named works were – and indeed remain – unfilmable in a narrower, formal sense. That’s to say, they deploy certain formal techniques – Burrough’s “cut-up” process; Ballard’s indifference to narrative tension and “realistic” characterisation, his reliance on startling, Daliesque imagery as the core of his achievement; Joyce’s radical upending of everything from literary convention to punctuation and typographic styles – that find no workable equivalent in what suddenly, in the face of all these innovations, seems the stubbornly inflexible and primitively visual cinematic form…”

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