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Crash Cultures (PB)
Modernity, Mediation and the Material
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ISBN 9781841500911
Paperback 192 pages

Published January 2003
Imprint: Intellect
Books by Iain Grant
Books by Jane Arthurs
Books in Cultural & Media Studies
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Since Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash, as well as showing the personal impact of the crash on individual lives.

Chapter titles
Introduction: 'Modernity, Mediation and the Materia'
Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant
Chapter 2: 'Will it Smash?': Modernity and the Fear of Fallin'
William Greenslade
Chapter 3: 'How it Feels'
SHaH
Chapter 4: ' Eye-Hunger: Physical Pleasure & Non-Narrative Cinema'
Karin Littau
Chapter 5: ' Crashed-Out: Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness'
Ben Highmore
Chapter 6: ' Crash: Beyond the Boundaries of Sense'
Jane Athurs
Chapter 7: 'Sexcrash'
Fred Botting and Scott Wilson
Chapter 8: ' Cyborgian Subjects and the Auto-Destruction of Metaphor'
David Roden
Chapter 9: ' Spirit in Crashes: Animist Machines and the Power of Number'
Iain Grant
Chapter 10: ' Racing Fatalities: White Highway, Black Wreckage'
Harjit Kaur Khaira and Gerry Carlin
Chapter 11: ' Negative Dialects of the Desert Crash in The English Patient'
Anne Beezer
Chapter 12: ' The Iconic Body and the Crash'
Jean Grimshaw
Chapter 13: ' Of Hallowed Spacings: Diana's Crash as Heterotopia'
Nils Lindahl Elliot and Carmen Alfonso
Chapter 14: ' Fuel, Metal, Air: The Appearances & Disappearances of Amelia Earhart'
Michelle Henning and Rebecc Goddard
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