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Author Arthurs, Jane.

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

Publication Info. Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (v, 202 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary 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 on individual lives. In trying to+J16 give meaning to one celebrity crash, the more general significance of the car crash, its challenge to rational control or explanation, its disregard for the subject and its will, became the focus for attention. Coincidentally, the two most newsworthy films of 1997 we.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Accidents (Philosophy)
Accidents (Philosophy)
Reality.
Reality.
Technology -- Philosophy.
Technology -- Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.
Technology and civilization.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Arthurs, Jane. Crash cultures. Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2003 1841500712
ISBN 1841508691 (electronic book)
9781841508696 (electronic book)
1280476842
9781280476846
1841500712
9781841500713