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Death Drive

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Death Drive

By Stephen Bayley

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About the book

Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars than any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness, 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 imagi...Show more

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ISBN

9781911422228

Publisher

Circa Press

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Death Drive

Format

Hardcover

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