Duffy / Fish / Jameson The Speed Handbook

Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9237-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

An argument that the sensation of speed (made available to many through the mass-produced automobile) was the quintessential way that people experienced modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duffy, Enda

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Adrenaline Aesthetic: Speed as Culture 1

1. Speed Theory 17

2. Thriller: The Incitement to Speed 59

3. Gaining Speed: Car Culture, Adrenaline, and the Experience of Speed 111

4. Blur: Rapid Eye Movement and the Visuality of Speed 157

5. Crash Culture 199

Epilogue: Overdrive 261

Notes 273

Bibliography 285

Index 293

Über Autor(innen)

Enda Duffy is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses.