Code: 05026612
Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture
by Ricarda Vidal
Why are we so obsessed with cars? Shiny objects of desire, cars never cease to fascinate us. As symbols of freedom they return again and again in art and film, even if real freedom is sometimes only achieved in the final explosive ... more
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English - Binding: Hardback
- Number of pages: 236
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, 2013
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Book synopsis
Why are we so obsessed with cars? Shiny objects of desire, cars never cease to fascinate us. As symbols of freedom they return again and again in art and film, even if real freedom is sometimes only achieved in the final explosive crash - the climax of the sheer exhilaration of speed. 'Car crash culture' is a symptom of the twentieth century, Ricarda Vidal argues in this book, revealing that our love of the car and technology is caused by the continuing influence of turn-of-the-century ideas: the Futurist technological utopia and the Romantic return to nature and desire. Artists, writers and filmmakers have explored this troubled love affair with the automobile throughout the past century. The work of F. T. Marinetti, Giacomo Balla, Jack Kerouac, Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard (Week End), Richard Sarafian (Vanishing Point), J. G. Ballard and David Cronenberg (Crash), Quentin Tarantino (Death Proof) and Sarah Lucas, among others, are shown to pursue these ideals, even as developments in modern cities and telecommunications continue to change the nature of speed and technology. While the first half of the twentieth century was concerned with the celebration of speed and acceleration, the car crash has now become an obsession of contemporary culture. Vidal concludes that our attraction to the car crash reflects the contemporary way of life in the West, which is defined by a Futurist technophilia, a Romantic longing for a higher meaning and an undeniable infatuation with the automobile.
Book details
Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies
221.30 zł
- Full title: Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture
- Author: Ricarda Vidal
- Language: English
- Binding: Hardback
- Number of pages: 236
- EAN: 9781906165420
- ISBN: 1906165424
- ID: 05026612
- Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd
- Weight: 620 g
- Dimensions: 241 × 155 × 19 mm
- Date of publishing: 18. March 2013
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