Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material /: modernity, mediation and the material. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: 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).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.