Crash cinema and the politics of speed and stasis
Title:
Crash cinema and the politics of speed and stasis
Author:
Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971-
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Publication Information:
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 305 p.) : ill.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Description based on print version record
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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