"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the voluminous, diverse, and fascinating cultural material-poems and novels, songs, films, art, tv series, and on and on-that emerge in the wake of aviation disasters. Randy Malamud reanimates these tragic events and identifies how they persist and resonate through our culture-more than we might have imagined, and in intricately far-reaching ways"--
"Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the voluminous, diverse, and fascinating cultural material-poems and novels, songs, films, art, tv series, and on and on-that emerge in the wake of aviation disasters. Randy Malamud reanimates these tragic events and identifies how they persist and resonate through our culture-more than we might have imagined, and in intricately far-reaching ways"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Randy Malamud is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of 12 books, including the influential Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (NYU Press, 1998), The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (Intellect, 2018), and Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers (Reaktion, 2021). He writes about film, travel, ecocriticism, and culture for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema, Film International, Common Knowledge, Salon, Huffington Post, The Conversation, and truthout. He has been interviewed about his books on NPR, BBC, CNN, and numerous podcasts. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
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List of Illustrations 1. Aviation and Its Discontents 2. Plane Crashes Before Planes Diversion: Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-88/09 3. Existential Aviation and Poetic Premonitions of Death 4. The Day the Music Died 5. Crashes in Art 6. Art in Crashes 7. Race, Crash, and Gender Diversion: UTA 772 Memorial 8. I Will Survive 9. The Zen and Karma of Plane Crashes Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
List of Illustrations 1. Aviation and Its Discontents 2. Plane Crashes Before Planes Diversion: Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-88/09 3. Existential Aviation and Poetic Premonitions of Death 4. The Day the Music Died 5. Crashes in Art 6. Art in Crashes 7. Race, Crash, and Gender Diversion: UTA 772 Memorial 8. I Will Survive 9. The Zen and Karma of Plane Crashes Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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