Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture A Century of Romantic Futurisms
Why are we so obsessed with cars? Shiny objects of desire, cars never cease to fascinate us. As symbols of freedom they return again and again in art and film, even if real freedom is sometimes only achieved in the final explosive crash - the climax of the sheer exhilaration of speed. 'Car...
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bern
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
2013
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| Edition | 1st, New ed. |
| Series | Peter Lang Ltd.
5 |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9783035304039 |
| Physical Description | 1 online zdroj (247 stran) |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Three Hundred Electric Moons: The Futurists' Defiance of Death and Romantic Nature - Systematic Chaos: Fordism as a Practical Realization of Futurism - Life (and Death) on the Road: The Beat Generation and the Road Movie - The Infinite Repetition of the Accidentdentdent: Andy Warhol and Antun Maračić - Caspar David Friedrich through a Broken Windscreen: Arnold Odermatt's Peaceful Crash Scenes - In Praise of Slow Motion: Julio Cortázar, Carol Dunlop and Jean-Luc Godard on the Motorway of the South - Crash-Desire: The Post-Erotic Machine Men of J. G. Ballard's and David Cronenberg's Crash - Sheer Driving Pleasure: Sarah Lucas's Human Cars and the Death of the Car as Machine - Women Take the Wheel: Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.