Speed Handbook - Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism

Informationen zum Autor Enda Duffy is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses. Klappentext Assesses the impact of speed in modern culture, viewing it as the most empowering and excruciating experience for individuals in the 20th century and an experience that is eminently political Zusammenfassung An argument that the sensation of speed (made available to many through the mass-produced automobile) was the quintessential way that people experienced modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Adrenaline Aesthetic: Speed as Culture 1 1. Speed Theory 17 2. Thriller: The Incitement to Speed 59 3. Gaining Speed: Car Culture, Adrenaline, and the Experience of Speed 111 4. Blur: Rapid Eye Movement and the Visuality of Speed 157 5. Crash Culture 199 Epilogue: Overdrive 261 Notes 273 Bibliography 285 Index 293

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Enda Duffy, Enda Duffy
• Con la collaborazione di: Stanley Fish (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.07.2009
• EAN: 9780822344308
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4430-8
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata