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Twenty-one British scholars contribute 14 essays which consider the crash (of physical objects, living beings, and nonvisible systems in the contemporary world) as a symbolic and material event which can give insights about the experiences of living in a modern, technologically-oriented world. Their analyses suggest the force of conventionalized ways of seeing and being, as a means of managing the unruly materiality of modern life, and address the interrelations between inanimate machines and living organisms. No subject index.
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Crash Cultures modernity, mediation and the material
Edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant
Reprinted in Hardback in Great Britain in 2003 by Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK Published in Hardback in USA in 2003 by Intellect Books, ISBS, 5824 N.E. Hassalo St, Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, USA Copyright © 2002 Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
Consulting Editor: Copy Editor: Cover Photography and Design: Typesetting: Printing and Binding:
Robin Beecroft Peter Young Becky Goddard Macstyle Ltd, Scarborough, N. Yorkshire The Cromwell Press, Wiltshire
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Electronic ISBN 1-84150-869-1 / ISBN 1-84150-071-2
Contents Contributors
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1. Introduction: Modernity, Mediation and the Material Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant
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2. ‘Will it Smash?’: Modernity and the Fear of Falling William Greenslade
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3. How it Feels SHaH
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4. Eye-Hunger: Physical Pleasure and Non-Narrative Cinema Karin Littau
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5. Crashed-