Forensic Media - Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity

Greg Siegel is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Accidents and Forensics 1

1. Engineering Detectives 31

2. Tracings 65

3. Black Boxes 89

4. Tests and Split Seconds 143

Epilogue. Retrospective Prophecies 195

Notes 215

Bibliography 237

Index 251

About the author

Greg Siegel is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Summary

This provocative book considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes, and argues that “forensic media” thereby transmute disruptive chance occurrences into reassuring narratives of causal succession.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Siegel
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2014
• EAN: 9780822357391
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5739-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission; Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries