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Informationen zum Autor Karen Beckman Klappentext ""Crash "is an extraordinarily original intervention in contemporary 'technophilic' discourses (even critical ones) focused on speed and mobility. As it resonates through a variety of cinematic and literary texts, Karen Beckman views the 'car crash' vividly (and viscerally) as a startling visual image, narrative thematic, and critical metaphor for what drives our contradictory desires for 'automobility, ' inertia, feeling, and community on a collision course both productive and destructive. As she moves across theories and disciplines, Beckman's textual and cultural analyses come together in a work that is passionate, illuminating, and politically engaged. "Crash" is a major contribution to film and media studies, comparative literature, art history, and cultural studies and, indeed, is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship."--Vivian Sobchack, author of "Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture" Zusammenfassung Argues that representations of the car crash in film genres from slapstick comedies to industrial-safety movies parallels the collision of film and other media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "Jerky Nearness": Spectatorship, Mobility, and Collision in Early Cinema 25 2. Car Wreckers and Home Lovers: The Automobile in Silent Slapstick 55 3. Doing Death Over: Industrial-Safety Films, Accidental-Motion Studies, and the Involuntary Crash Test Dummy 105 4. Disaster Time, the Kennedy Assassination, and Andy Warhol's Since (1966/2002) 137 5. Film Falls Apart: Crash, Semen, and Pop 161 6. Crash Aesthetics: Amores perros and the Dream of Cinematic Mobility 179 7. The Afterlife of Weekend: Or, The University Found on a Scrapheap 205 Notes 235 Bibliography 275 Index 289
