Enda Duffy

The Speed Handbook

Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Assesses the impact of speed in modern culture, viewing it as the most empowering and excruciating experience for individuals in the 20th century and an experience that is eminently political

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344308
• ISBN-10: 0822344300
• Artikelnr.: 25908667

Autorenporträt

Enda Duffy

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Adrenaline Aesthetic: Speed as Culture 1
1. Speed Theory 17
2. Thriller: The Incitement to Speed 59
3. Gaining Speed: Car Culture, Adrenaline, and the Experience of Speed 111
4. Blur: Rapid Eye Movement and the Visuality of Speed 157
5. Crash Culture 199
Epilogue: Overdrive 261
Notes 273
Bibliography 285
Index 293