Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material / Jane Arthurs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arthurs, Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Accidents (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, Uk ; Portland, OR : Intellect Books, c2002.

Language Note:

English

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:

Preliminaries; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 'Will It Smash?': Modernity and the Fear of Falling; 3How 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 Heterotopia14 Fuel, Metal, Air: The Appearances and Disappearances of Amelia Earhart; Postscript

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786610476848

9781841508696

1841508691

9781280476846

1280476842

OCLC:

70753496