Wisconsin Death Trip
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Wisconsin Death Trip is a non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, first published in 1973. It has been adapted into a film.
The book is based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick, mostly in the town of Black River Falls, and local news reports from the same period. It emphasizes the harsh aspects of Midwestern rural life under the pressures of crime, disease, mental illness, and urbanization.
The film was directed by James Marsh and starred Marcus Monroe and released in 2000. In a docudrama style, and shot entirely in black-and-white (except for contrasting sequences of modern life in the area, in color), it combined re-enactments of some of the events described in the book with a voice-over narration by Ian Holm. Its visual style was intended to carry the content of the film - as Marsh said:
- "I wanted to convey in the film the real pathos contained in a four line newspaper report that simultaneously records and dismisses the end of someone’s life" [1]
The book has also inspired the homonymous album by the band Static-X and a song by the Bethel Maine-based thrash metal band Theory of Negativity off of their 1994 self-titled album.
Wisconsin Death Trip is also the name of an ambient/electronic musical artist from Portland, Maine.
The Australian author Rod Jones cites Wisconsin Death Trip as an inspiration for his novel Billy Sunday. Billy Sunday was described as "The Great American Novel" by the Boston Globe. (Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet, The Boston Sunday Globe, June 9, 1996).
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Amherst, Massachusetts, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, Flowers (Echo & the Bunnymen album), It's Alright (Echo & the Bunnymen song), John Cale, John Schneider (stage actor), Lake Wobegon, List of American films of 1999, Marcus Monroe, Mary Sweeny, Michael Lesy, Return to Oz, Shadow Zone (Static-X album), Stem (DJ Shadow song), Wisconsin Death Trip (album), Wisconsin Death Trip (film), Wisconsin Death Trip (transclusion), Y'all Is Fantasy Island
