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The speed handbook : velocity, pleasure, modernism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duffy, Enda
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
Subjects:
Speed > Social aspects.
Time > Social aspects.
Civilization, Modern > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the adrenaline aesthetic : speed as culture
  • Speed theory
  • Thriller : the incitement to speed
  • Gaining speed : car culture, adrenaline, and the experience of speed
  • Blur : rapid eye movement and the visuality of speed
  • Crash culture
  • Epilogue : overdrive.