Now, in large part because of Kureishi’s work, multiculturalism is mainstream. A lot of critical attention has quite rightly been paid to this. In 1990 there were hardly any English novels about growing up as a mixed race child so The Buddha of Suburbia and Kureishi’s first film with Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Laundrette, were important interventions in the debate about what it means to be British in the wake of postwar immigration. Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Guignol's Band I & II John Sommerfield: Trouble in Porter Street Taking the series as a whole, it also confirms two things: that narrative nowadays is generically highly hybrid and increasingly cross-media and that an understanding of the processes of writing and reading 'contemporary classic' (or at least 'currently famous') fiction cannot be separated - yet must be distinguished - from the processes of making and marketing books and films.Pamela Hansford Johnson: This Bed Thy Centre Highly finished and pleasantly handleable as books in their own right, they gesture accommodatingly to both words and worlds beyond.
In method as in subject matter, these guides move freely on the interface between print culture and multimedia. An important feature is the fully referenced bibliographies, including reviews and copious website addresses - the latter ranging from fanzines and authors' and publishers' own sites to academic discussion lists and online journals. Given the space, there are remarkably balanced film/novel comparisons of the most well-known examples. The books are invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews and the web as well as from literary reviews. And at best it goes a fair way towards reshuffling those categories and redrawing the boundaries.
"The series comes as near to squaring various circles - popular / academic, 'good read' / 'classic Lit', novel / film of the book as any I know.
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