![]() ![]() Just as Trainspotting, the film and book, was read as promoting a culture of heroin use, The Football Factory thus entered sporting media culture as a cause of the return of football hooliganism. The film was lambasted by critics partly because it used 'real' football hooligans and was held up as refusing to condemn the violent sexist amorality of its characters. The media moral panic surrounding the film is contextualized and the book and film situated in contemporary popular literature and culture. This paper attempts to analyze some aspects of the genesis and cultural production of The Football Factory by John King, a best selling 'cult fiction' book in the mid-1990s, and the making of the novel into a feature film released for the cinema and on DVD 10 years later. ![]()
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