http://www.ballardian.com/ballardian-cinema-the-business-of-strangers Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:06:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.ballardian.com/ballardian-cinema-the-business-of-strangers/comment-page-1#comment-762 FJ Torres Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:36:15 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/ballardian-cinema-the-business-of-strangers/#comment-762 Ballard's influence in contemporary cinema is pervasive. From the imagery of Neo New Wave music video clips to French heist fims to Korean Die Hard Knock offs it is very easy to find imagery and situations suggestive of Ballard. That seems to me to be proof of Ballard's grasp of the globalized Zeigeist- he may be the first (and maybe the only) chronicler of the world after the post modern moment. It may be that (like it is the case with PK Dick) the least Ballardian films are the direct adaptations of his novels.... Ballard’s influence in contemporary cinema is pervasive.
From the imagery of Neo New Wave music video clips to French heist fims to Korean Die Hard Knock offs it is very easy to find imagery and situations suggestive of Ballard. That seems to me
to be proof of Ballard’s grasp of the globalized Zeigeist- he may be the first (and maybe the only) chronicler of the world after the post modern moment.
It may be that (like it is the case with PK Dick) the least Ballardian films are the direct adaptations of his novels….

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