Crash : cinema and the politics of speed and stasis / / Karen Beckman
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| Autore: |
Beckman Karen Redrobe <1971->
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| Titolo: |
Crash : cinema and the politics of speed and stasis / / Karen Beckman
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, NC, : Duke University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/6 |
| 791.436 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Car-chase films - History and criticism |
| Motion pictures - Plots, themes, etc | |
| Motion pictures - History | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Crash |
| ISBN: | 1-283-03675-4 |
| 9786613036759 | |
| 0-8223-9276-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910433258703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.