Description: Crash! : Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields, Paperback by Malamud, Randy, ISBN 1501394770, ISBN-13 9781501394775, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction. Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, beyond rote media reports and forensic accident investigations. This is despite the voluminous, diverse, and fascinating cultural materials - poems and novels, songs, films, art, TV series, and on and on - that emerge in the wake of aviation disasters. Randy Malamud reanimates these tragic events and identifies how they persist and resonate through our culture-more than we might have imagined, and in intricately far-reaching ways. A unique and extraordinarily wide-ranging cultural examination, CRASH! takes the reader on a journey that includes reflections on flight phobia, themes of crash survival (with asides on Lord of the Flies, The Little Prince, and Ernest Hemingway's two-day two-crash adventure), the existentialism of pilots' last words, the day the music died, deep dives into modernist plane wreck paintings, kamikaze pilots and their Zen death poems, plane crashes before planes, 'race, crash, and gender,' and the cultural aftermath of 9/11. Ultimately, Malamud shows that crashes do not bring about complete and total destruction: we accomplish some degree of restoration by shoring fragments against the ruins. The plane is dead; long live the plane.
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Book Title: Crash! : Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Crash! : Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Subjects & Themes / Nature, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.3 Oz
Author: Randy Malamud
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Art, Social Science
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback