Book: Car Crash Culture This book explores the grim underside of America's cult of the automobile and the frequently conspiratorial speculations that arise whenever people die in cars. Looking at fatal celebrity car accidents and other examples of death by automobile through personal memoir and forensic reports, cultural critics ponder people's fascination with car crashes. They explore car crash conspiracy theories, the automobile as a site of murder, car crash films, and the notion of the "accident." The book features original essays by such underground icons as Kenneth Anger and Adam Parfrey. Essays cover the deaths of Albert Camus, Jackson Pollock, James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Princess Diana, Princess Grace, and Mary Jo Kopechine, amongst others.
Details of Book: Car Crash Culture Book: Car Crash Culture
Author: Mikita Brottman
ISBN: 0312240384
ISBN-13: 9780312240387
, 978-0312240387
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Number of Pages: 404
Language: English