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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 twenty celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac CRX, in 2004. En route the narrative traces one very big arc the role of the car in extending or creating the personality of a celebrity and concludes by confronting the imminent death of the car itself.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Death Drive: There are No Accidents
• Author: Stephen Bayley
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780993072123
• ISBN: 0993072127
• ID: 09517536
• Publisher: Circa Press
• Weight: 732 g
• Dimensions: 169 × 221 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2015

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