Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material /: modernity, mediation and the material. (2003)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material /: modernity, mediation and the material. (2003)
- Main Title:
- Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant.
- Other Names:
- Arthurs, Jane
- Contents:
- Cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- 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 Powers 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 -- Postscript.
- Publisher Details:
- Bristol, UK Portland, OR : Intellect
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (v, 202 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 190/.9/04
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century
Accidents (Philosophy)
Reality
Technology -- Philosophy
Technology and civilization
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern
Accidents (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Modern
Reality
Technology and civilization
Technology -- Philosophy
Rampen
Representatie (algemeen)
Films
Bellettrie
Sociale aspecten
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 1841508691
9781841508696
1280476842
9781280476846
1841500712
9781841500713 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.56934
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- 01_080.xml