Crash : Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis / Karen Beckman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckman, Karen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina, USA : Duke University Press, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen Beckman argues that representations of the crash parallel the encounter of film with other media, and that these collisions between media offer useful ways to think about alterity, politics, and desire. Examining the significance of automobile collisions in film genres including the "cinema of attractions," slapstick comedies, and industrial-safety movies, Beckman reveals how the car crash gives visual form to fantasies and anxieties regarding speed and stasis, risk and safety, immunity and contamination, and impermeability and penetration.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103928

ISBN:

9780822392767

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392767

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access