The Britpop movement of the mid-1990s defined a generation, and the films were just as exciting as the music. Beginning with Shallow Grave, hitting its stride with Trainspotting, and going global with The Full Monty, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Human Traffic, Sexy Beast, Shaun of the Dead and This Is England, Britpop cinema pushed boundaries, paid Hollywood no heed and placed the United Kingdom all too briefly at the centre of the movie universe.
Featuring exclusive interviews with key players such as Simon Pegg, Irvine Welsh, Michael Winterbottom and Edgar Wright, Britpop Cinema combines eyewitness accounts, close analysis and social history to celebrate a golden age for UK film.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Don't Look Back in Anger
Chapter 1: Things Can Only Get Better
Chapter 2: Do You Remember the First Time?
Chapter 3: The Day We Caught the Train
Chapter 4: A Life Less Ordinary
Chapter 5: Staying Out for the Summer
Chapter 6: The Drugs Don't Work
Chapter 7: Caught by the Fuzz
Chapter 8: Chemical World
Chapter 9: Anyone Can Play Guitar
Chapter 10: The Living Dead
Chapter 11: Three Lions
Chapter 12: Everything Must Go
Epilogue: Don't Look Back into the Sun
References
Index
