{"product_id":"crash-aviation-disasters-and-the-cultural-debris-fields-hardcover-1","title":"Crash!: Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRandy Malamud\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCRASH!\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, beyond rote media reports and forensic accident investigations. This is despite the voluminous, diverse, and fascinating cultural materials - poems and novels, songs, films, art, TV series, and on and on - that emerge in the wake of aviation disasters. Randy Malamud reanimates these tragic events and identifies how they persist and resonate through our culture-more than we might have imagined, and in intricately far-reaching ways. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A unique and extraordinarily wide-ranging cultural examination, \u003ci\u003eCRASH!\u003c\/i\u003etakes the reader on a journey that includes reflections on flight phobia, themes of crash survival (with asides on \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ernest Hemingway's two-day two-crash adventure), the existentialism of pilots' last words, the day the music died, deep dives into modernist plane wreck paintings, kamikaze pilots and their Zen death poems, plane crashes before planes, 'race, crash, and gender, ' and the cultural aftermath of 9\/11. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, Malamud shows that crashes do not bring about complete and total destruction: we accomplish some degree of restoration by shoring fragments against the ruins. The plane is dead; long live the plane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRandy Malamud\u003c\/b\u003e is Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of 12 books, including the influential \u003ci\u003eReading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eStrange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). He writes about film, travel, ecocriticism, and culture for the \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFilm Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSenses of Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFilm International\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCommon Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003etruthout\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been interviewed about his books on NPR, BBC, CNN, and numerous podcasts. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704110248243,"sku":"9781501394782","price":158.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/krZDTkMQAX9781501394782_0e3b3e7e-8218-4a65-bd4d-7f8a734b6a88.webp?v=1763348229","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/crash-aviation-disasters-and-the-cultural-debris-fields-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}