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Beckman, Karen

Crash Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis / Karen Beckman. - 1 online resource (1 p.)

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Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen Beckman argues that representations of the crash parallel the encounter of film with other media, and that these collisions between media offer useful ways to think about alterity, politics, and desire. Examining the significance of automobile collisions in film genres including the "cinema of attractions," slapstick comedies, and industrial-safety movies, Beckman reveals how the car crash gives visual form to fantasies and anxieties regarding speed and stasis, risk and safety, immunity and contamination, and impermeability and penetration.

ISBN: 9780822392767

Standard No.: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392767

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Performing arts

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Electronic books.