Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

by Karen Beckman and Karen Redrobe

Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro Gonz lez I rritu and Ousmane Semb ne 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822347261
• ISBN13: 9780822347262
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"