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Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. The books in the series will all follow the same structure:a biography of the novelist, including other works, influences, and, in some cases, an interview; a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas; a summary of how the novel was received upon publication; a summary of how the novel has performed since publication, including film or TV adaptations, literary prizes, etc.; a wide range of suggestions for further reading, including websites and discussion forums; and a list of questions for reading groups to discuss.

Welsh, Irvine (1958-....). Trainspotting --- Welsh, Irvine (1958-....) --- Critique et interprétation --- Welsh, Irvine (1958-....). Trainspotting --- Welsh, Irvine (1958-....) --- Critique et interprétation

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Railroad trains. --- Cold War. --- World politics --- Freight trains --- Goods trains --- Railroads --- Trains, Freight --- Trains, Goods --- Trains, Railroad --- Vehicles --- Trainspotting --- Trains --- Making up trains

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"In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Produced by Andrew Macdonald, scripted by John Hodge and directed by Danny Boyle, the team behind Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting was an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's barbed novel of the same title. The film is crucial for understanding British culture in the context of devolution and the rise of 'Cool Britannia'. Murray Smith unpicks the processes that led to Trainspotting 's enormous success. He isolates various factors - the film's eclectic soundtrack, its depiction of Scottish identity, its attitude to deprivation, drugs and violence, its traffic with American cultural forms, its synthesis of realist and fantastic elements, and its complicated relationship to 'heritage' that make Trainspotting such a vivid document of its time. Although it heralded a false dawn for British film-making, Trainspotting is, Smith concludes, both authentically vernacular and yet transnational in its influences and ambitions. In his afterword to this new edition, Murray Smith reflects on the original film 25 years after its release, and its 2017 sequel T2: Trainspotting also directed by Boyle. Smith also considers Danny Boyle's subsequent directorial career, with highlights including Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony."--

Drug addicts --- Young men --- Men --- Young adults --- Boys --- Trainspotting (Motion picture) --- Train spotting (Motion picture) --- Edinburgh (Scotland) --- Boyle, Danny --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Railways are an environmentally friendly means of transport well suited to modern society. However, noise and vibration are key obstacles to further development of the railway networks for high-speed intercity traffic, for freight and for suburban metros and light-rail. All too often noise problems are dealt with inefficiently due to lack of understanding of the problem.This book brings together coverage of the theory of railway noise and vibration with practical applications of noise control technology at source to solve noise and vibration problems from railways. The author has wide

Railroad tracks --- Railroad trains --- Noise control. --- Damping (Mechanics) --- Bruit, lutte contre le --- Amortissement (Mécanique) --- Noise. --- Vibration. --- Noise control --- Freight trains --- Goods trains --- Railroads --- Trains, Freight --- Trains, Goods --- Trains, Railroad --- Vehicles --- Trainspotting --- Tracks, Railroad --- Noise prevention --- Acoustical engineering --- Environmental engineering --- Noise --- Oscillations --- Vibration --- Waves --- Trains --- Making up trains --- Track --- Buildings and structures --- 534.836 --- Engineering --- Automobile and Transportation

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Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the post-war train spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways, and for many, ignited a lifetime's interest. British railway enthusiasm traces this post-war cohort, and those which followed, as they invigorated different sectors in the world of railway enthusiasm - train spotting, railway modelling, collecting railway relics - and then, in response to the demise of main line steam traction, Britain's now-huge preserved railway industry. Today this industry finds itself riven by tensions between preserving a loved past which ever fewer people can remember and earning money from tourist visitors.The widespread and enduring significance of railway enthusiasm will ensure that this groundbreaking text remains a key work in transport studies, and will appeal to enthusiasts as much as to students and scholars of transport and cultural history.

Railfans --- Nostalgia --- Trainspotting --- Buffs, Railroad --- Rail fans --- Railroad buffs --- Railroad enthusiasts --- Hobbyists --- Gricing --- Train chasing --- Train-spotting --- Trainchasing --- Hobbies --- Railroad trains --- Social aspects --- British railway enthusiasts. --- Railway Book Mania. --- locomotive numbers. --- model engineering. --- post-war period. --- prototype railways. --- railway history. --- railway modelling. --- toy trains. --- train spotters. --- train spotting craze.