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Crash cultures : modernity, mediation, and the material / edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant. - v, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributors -- Introduction: Modernity, Mediation and the Material -- 'Will it Smash?': Modernity and the Fear of Falling -- How it Feels -- Eye-Hunger: Physical Pleasure and Non-Narrative Cinema -- Crashed-Out: Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness -- Crash: Beyond the Boundaries of Sense -- Sexcrash -- Cyborgian Subjects and the Auto-Destruction of Metaphor -- Spirit in Crashes: Animist Machines and the Power of Number -- Racing Fatalities: White Highway, Black Wreckage -- Negative Dialectics of the Desert Crash in The English Patient -- The Iconic Body and the Crash -- Of Hallowed Spacings: Diana's Crash as Heterotopia -- Fuel, Metal, Air: The Appearances and Disappearances of Amelia Earhart. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

ISBN: 1841500712 9781841500713 1841500917 9781841500911

LCCN: 2004296323

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Philosophy, Modern--20th century
Accidents (Philosophy)
Reality
Technology and civilization
Disasters--Social aspects
Accidents--Social aspects

LC Class. No.: B804 / .A78 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 303.485