Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material /
Arthurs, Jane.
Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material / edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant. - Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2003. - 1 online resource (v, 202 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
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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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.
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1841508691 (electronic bk.) 9781841508696 (electronic bk.) 1280476842 9781280476846 1841500712 9781841500713
31809781841508696 Ingram Content Group
GBB746912 bnb
017813784 Uk
1900-1999
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Accidents (Philosophy)
Reality.
Technology--Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophie--20e siècle.
Accident (Philosophie)
Réalité.
Technologie--Philosophie.
Technologie et civilisation.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
Accidents (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Modern.
Reality.
Technology and civilization.
Technology--Philosophy.
Rampen.
Representatie (algemeen)
Films.
Bellettrie.
Sociale aspecten.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
B804 / .A78 2003eb
190/.9/04
Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material / edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant. - Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2003. - 1 online resource (v, 202 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Use copy Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time;
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.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
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
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
1841508691 (electronic bk.) 9781841508696 (electronic bk.) 1280476842 9781280476846 1841500712 9781841500713
31809781841508696 Ingram Content Group
GBB746912 bnb
017813784 Uk
1900-1999
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Accidents (Philosophy)
Reality.
Technology--Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophie--20e siècle.
Accident (Philosophie)
Réalité.
Technologie--Philosophie.
Technologie et civilisation.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
Accidents (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Modern.
Reality.
Technology and civilization.
Technology--Philosophy.
Rampen.
Representatie (algemeen)
Films.
Bellettrie.
Sociale aspecten.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
B804 / .A78 2003eb
190/.9/04