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Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR :
Intellect,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.