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Crash : cinema and the politics of speed and stasis / Karen Beckman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redrobe, Karen.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Car-chase films--History and criticism.
- Car-chase films.
- Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues that representations of the car crash in film genres from slapstick comedies to industrial-safety movies parallels the collision of film and other media.
- Contents:
- "Jerky nearness" : spectatorship, mobility, and collision in early cinema
- Car wreckers and home lovers : the automobile in silent slapstick
- Doing death over : industrial-safety films, accidental-motion studies, and the involuntary crash test dummy
- Disaster time, the Kennedy assassination, and Andy Warhol's Since (1966/2002)
- Film falls apart : Crash, Semen, and Pop
- Crash aesthetics : Amores perros and the dream of cinematic mobility
- The afterlife of Weekend, or, the university found on a scrapheap.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036759
- 9781283036757
- 1283036754
- 9780822392767
- 0822392763
- OCLC:
- 1143350843
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392767
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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