Crash cultures : modernity, mediation, and the material / edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant.
Material type: TextPublisher: Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2003Description: v, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1841500712
- 9781841500713
- 1841500917
- 9781841500911
- 303.485 21
- B804 .A78 2003
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.485 CRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A410995B |
Includes bibliographical references.
Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Modernity, Mediation and the Material -- 2. 'Will it Smash?': Modernity and the Fear of Falling -- 3. How 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 Power 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 Heterotopia -- 14. Fuel, Metal, Air: The Appearances and Disappearances of Amelia Earhart.
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