Karen Redrobe

Crash

Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considers the popular cinematic trope of the car crash as a metaphor for the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and interdisciplinarity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347088
• ISBN-10: 0822347083
• Artikelnr.: 30364561

Autorenporträt

Karen Beckman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. "Jerky Nearness": Spectatorship, Mobility, and Collision in Early Cinema
25
2. Car Wreckers and Home Lovers: The Automobile in Silent Slapstick 55
3. Doing Death Over: Industrial-Safety Films, Accidental-Motion Studies,
and the Involuntary Crash Test Dummy 105
4. Disaster Time, the Kennedy Assassination, and Andy Warhol's Since
(1966/2002) 137
5. Film Falls Apart: Crash, Semen, and Pop 161
6. Crash Aesthetics: Amores perros and the Dream of Cinematic Mobility 179
7. The Afterlife of Weekend: Or, The University Found on a Scrapheap 205
Notes 235
Bibliography 275
Index 289