The Speed Handbook
Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
1st Edition
Published on 20. July 2009
316 pages
978-0-8223-9237-8 (ISBN)
Description
An argument that the sensation of speed (made available to many through the mass-produced automobile) was the quintessential way that people experienced modernity.
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Duke University Press
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Enda Duffy is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses.
Content
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
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
