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Crash Cultures
Modernity, Mediation and the Material
192 pages, 6-3/4 x 9
Cloth $50.00
ISBN: 9781841500713
Published January 2000
Not for sale in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or select South East Asia countries
Paper $30.00
ISBN: 9781841500911
Published January 2000
Not for sale in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or select South East Asia countries
Contributors
1. Introduction: Modernity, Mediation and the Material
Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant
2. ‘Will it Smash?’: Modernity and the Fear of Falling
William Greenslade
3. How it Feels Shah
4. Eye-Hunger: Physical Pleasure and Non-Narrative Cinema
Karin Littau
5. Crashed-Out: Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness
Ben Highmore
6. Crash: Beyond the Boundaries of Sense
Jane Arthurs
7. Sexcrash
Fred Botting and Scott Wilson
8. Cyborgian Subjects and the Auto-Destruction of Metaphor
David Roden
9. Spirit in Crashes: Animist Machines and the Power of Number
Iain Grant
10. Racing Fatalities: White Highway, Black Wreckage
Harjit Kaur Khaira and Gerry Carlin
11. Negative Dialectics of the Desert Crash in The English Patient
Anne Beezer
12. The Iconic Body and the Crash
Jean Grimshaw
13. Of Hallowed Spacings: Diana's Crash as Heterotopia
Nils Lindahl Elliot and Carmen Alfonso
14. Fuel, Metal, Air: The Appearances and Disappearances of Amelia Earhart
Michelle Henning and Rebecca Goddard
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