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.

• Author
• Mikita Brottman, Kenneth Anger, Alex D. Pokorny, James P. Smith, John R. Finch, Takeshi Imajo, John Marshall MacDonald, Turbon A. Murad, Margie H. Boddy, Philip L. Simpson, Jerry Glover, A. Loudermilk, David Kerekes, Pamela McElwain-Brown, Harvey Roy Greenberg, Christopher Sharret, Tony Williams, David Sterrit, Jeff Ferrell, Jack Sargeant, Stephen Jay Schneider, Derek Parker Royal, Adam Parfrey, Julian Darius, Gregory Ulmer, Eric Laurier, William G. Luhr, Howard Lake, Jay D. Dix, Stephen Bolesta, J.C. Rupp

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 384

• Publisher
• Palgrave Macmillan

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-24038-7

• EAN
• 9780312240387

• Release date
• 2002