Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture A Century of Romantic Futurisms

• Main Author: Vidal, Ricarda (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2013
• Edition: 1st, New ed.
• Series: Peter Lang Ltd. 5
• Subjects: automobily; filmové rekvizity; automobiles; motion picture properties; car crash culture; car crash; elektronické knihy; electronic books

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...