Crash [electronic resource] : cinema and the politics of speed and stasis / Karen Beckman.

By: Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xi, 305 p.) : illSubject(s): Car-chase films -- History and criticism | Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc | Motion pictures -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: CrashLOC classification: PN1997.8 | .B43 2010Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

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