Crash cinema and the politics of speed and stasis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Jerky nearness" : spectatorship, mobility, and collision in early cinema
  • Car wreckers and home lovers : the automobile in silent slapstick
  • Doing death over : industrial-safety films, accidental-motion studies, and the involuntary crash test dummy
  • Disaster time, the Kennedy assassination, and Andy Warhol's Since (1966/2002)
  • Film falls apart : Crash, Semen, and Pop
  • Crash aesthetics : Amores perros and the dream of cinematic mobility
  • The afterlife of Weekend, or, the university found on a scrapheap.