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Author Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971-

Title Crash [electronic resource] : cinema and the politics of speed and stasis / Karen Beckman.

Imprint Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xi, 305 p.) : ill.
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Note Description based on print version record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Car-chase films -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
Motion pictures -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Other Form: Print version: Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971- Crash Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2010 9780822347088 0822347083 9780822347262 0822347261 (DLC) 2009053841 (OCoLC)497884387
ISBN 9780822392767 (e-book)
0822392763 (e-book)
9780822347088 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822347083 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822347262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822347261 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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