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Crash! : Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malamud, Randy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airplanes in art.
- Existentialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2024.
- Summary:
- CRASH!explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction.Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, beyond rote media reports and forensic accident investigations.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 1 Aviation and Its Discontents
- Uh-oh
- But what’s going on?
- Am I going down?
- Ruins are the beginning
- Impact
- Ground death
- 2 Plane Crashes Before Planes
- ‘Melancholy Exits’
- The fall of Icarus
- Shipwrecks etc.
- Diversion: Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-88/09
- 3 Existential Aviation and Poetic Premonitions of Death
- But again, what’s going on?
- This tumult in the clouds
- Existential aviation: freedom/finitude
- Existential aviation: God
- Existential aviation: the leap of faith
- “This life, this death”: existential balance vs. existential chaos
- A Canadian Airman foresees his death
- Redux
- Plane-crash dreams
- 4 The Day the Music Died Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781501394799
- 1501394797
- OCLC:
- 1492945017
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