| Description |
xliii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Car crash culture / edited by Mikita Brottman. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction?Mikita Brottman -- Car Crash Contemplations -- Kar Krash Karma?Kenneth Anger -- Clutching Pearls: Speculations on a Twentieth Century Suicide?A. Loudermilk -- Existential Reality on Powell Boulevard?Adam Parfrey -- This Wreckless Landscape?Eric Laurier -- Strangers in the Night?William Luhr -- Jump on In You?re in Safe Hands?Howard Lake -- Car Crash Crimes -- Dragging Deaths: A Case in Point?Jay D. Dix & -- Stephen Bolesta -- The Love Bug?J.C. Rupp -- Vehicular Suicides: Eleven Case Studies?Alex Pokorny, J.D. Smith, John Finch & -- Takeshi Imajo -- Suicide and Homicide by Automobile?John M. McDonald -- A Case with Bear Facts?Turhon Murad & -- Margie Boddy -- Highway to Hell: The Case of California?s Freeway Killer?Michael Newton -- Car Crash Conspiracies -- Car Crash Cover-Ups: The Deaths of Princess Diana and Mary Jo Kopechne?Philip L. Simpson -- Why Don?t We Make Believe it Happened in the Road?: The Many Deaths and Rebirths of Paul McCartney?Jerry Glover -- Papal Conveyance?David Kerekes -- SS-100-X?Pamela McElwain-Brown -- Car Crash Cinema -- Machine Dreams?Harvey Roy Greenberg -- The End of the Road: David Cronenberg?s Crash and the Fading of the West?Mikita Brottman & -- Christopher Sharrett -- Heart Like a Wheel Tony Williams -- Thanatos ex Machina : Godard Caresses the Dead?David Sterritt -- Signal 30 ?Mikita Brottman -- The Death Drive -- Eleven Dead Caddies and One Dead Punk?Jeff Ferrell -- Violence and Vinyl: Car Crash Pop Songs?Jack Sargeant -- Death as Art / The Car Crash as Statement: The Death of Jackson Pollock?Steven Jay Schneider -- Rebel With a Cause: The Death of Albert Camus?Derek Parker Royal -- Car Crash Crucifixion Culture?Julian Darius -- American Blood Ritual?Christopher Sharrett -- Traffic of the Spheres: Prototype for a Memorial?Gregory Ulmer -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Traffic accidents Social aspects History, Automobiles Social aspects History, Celebrities Death History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Traffic accidents -- Social aspects -- History.
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Automobiles -- Social aspects -- History.
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Celebrities -- Death -- History.
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| Author |
Brottman, Mikita, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2001036102 |
| ISBN |
0312240368 : |
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0312240384 paperback |
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