Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material

Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material / edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant.

Since Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash, as well as showing the personal impact of the crash...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arthurs, Jane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2003.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
Accidents (Philosophy)
Reality.
Technology > Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.
Philosophy, Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Philosophy, Modern
Reality
Technology and civilization
Technology > Philosophy
Rampen.
Representatie (algemeen)
Films.
Bellettrie.
Sociale aspecten.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Preliminaries
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Modernity, Mediation and the Material
  • 2 'Will It Smash?': Modernity and the Fear of Falling
  • 3 How it Feels
  • 4 Eye-Hunger: Physical Pleasure and Non- Narrative Cinema
  • 5 Crashed-Out: Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness
  • 6 Crash: Beyond the Boundaries of Sense
  • 7 Sexcrash
  • 8 Cyborgian Subjects and the Auto-Destruction of Metaphor
  • 9 Spirit in Crashes: Animist Machines and the Powers of Number
  • 10 Racing Fatalities: White Highway, Black Wreckage
  • 11 Negative Dialectics of the Desert Crash in The English Patient
  • 12 The Iconic Body and the Crash
  • 13 Of Hallowed Spacings: Diana's Crash as Heterotopia
  • 14 Fuel, Metal, Air: The Appearances and Disappearances of Amelia Earhart
  • Postscript.

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