Crash Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
03.08.2010
Verlag
Duke University PressSeitenzahl
320
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.6/2.9 cm
Gewicht
467 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8223-4726-2
Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro GonzÁlez IÑÁrritu and Ousmane SembÈne 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 desire. Examining the significance of automobile collisions in film genres including the “cinema of attractions,” slapstick comedies, and industrial-safety movies, Beckman reveals how the car crash gives visual form to fantasies and anxieties regarding speed and stasis, risk and safety, immunity and contamination, and impermeability and penetration. Her reflections on the crash as the traumatic, uncertain moment of inertia that comes in the wake of speed and confidence challenge the tendency in cinema studies to privilege movement above film’s other qualities. Ultimately, Beckman suggests that film studies is a hybrid field that cannot apprehend its object of study without acknowledging the ways that cinema’s technology binds it to capitalism’s industrial systems and other media, technologies, and disciplines.
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