Crash : cinema and the politics of speed and stasis / / Karen Beckman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910433258703321
• Autore: Beckman Karen Redrobe <1971->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-283-03675-4; 9786613036759; 0-8223-9276-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6; 791.436
• Soggetti: Car-chase films - History and criticism; Motion pictures - Plots, themes, etc; Motion pictures - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based on print version record
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.