My Beautiful Laundrette: Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide

by Christine Geraghty

Described by Stuart Hall as ""one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years,"" My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Christine Geraghty considers it a crossover between television and cinema, realism and fantasy, and as an independent film targeting a popular audience. She deftly shows how it has remained an important and timely film in the 1990s and early 2000s, and her exploration of the film itself is an original and entertaining achievement.

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2005

Reviews

[Stephanie Hiddleston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, I don't get the other reviews. This isn't about whether or not you liked the movie. Rating this book is about looking into if it academic well and strong written. If it looks at the movie under a special point of view and proofs that view and guys IT FUCKING DOES.

The analysis is strong, the arguments are nicely done and the book is very helpful.
The author could have gone deeper into more scenes, that's the only thing making this book more valuable.

[Soph Suters · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent analysis. Very very helpful.

[Emily Cait · Rating 2 out of 5]

A nice analysis of the film My Beautiful Laundrette. However, I didn't like the film, so I didn't find the book all that interesting.