Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars and car design than in any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness and cultural modelling. But when all this perverse promise ends in catastrophe, these same talismanic qualities acquire an extra dimension.
The car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture.
Death Drive is both an appreciative essay about the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination and a detailed exploration of the circumstances of 24 celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac, in 2004 The author concludes by confronting the imminent demise of the car itself.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
256 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Circa Press |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2026-03-17 |
| ISBN |
9781911422501 |
