ISBN: 9781780230719

?Drive: Automobile Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A widespread a… Mehr…

?Drive: Automobile Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A widespread and richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how automobile driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving-images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the avant-garde. Drive moves quickly from the deserts of The Grapes of Wrath to the adventurous city streets of The Italian Job, from the aesthetic delights of Rain Man and Trafic to the existential musings of Two-Lane Blacktop, Thelma and Louise and Vanishing Point, from the contemplative freeway pleasures of Lift to the Scaffold, Radio On and London Orbital to the hallucinatory high-speed dangers of Crash, Bullitt, Death Proof and C'était un Rendezvous. It is book about dynamic journeys, experiences and speeds, rooted in specific places and roads, and expanded into the realm of cinema, art and video games. Covering over a century of history, and with reference to hundreds of different movies, Drive shows how various kinds of driving - with different speeds, cars, attitudes, roads and cities - provides experiences and values which we ignore at our peril. Its conclusion - that car driving is an integral and essential part of our modern-day life, and therefore something to be celebrated and perhaps even encouraged - is a timely riposte to those anti-car attitudes which are too often blinkered to the richness of car driving. Digital Content>E-books>Movies & TV>Film Studies>Film Studies, Reaktion Books, Limited Digital >16<

2013, ISBN: 9781780230719

Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, &quote;The open road&quote;-it's a phrase that calls to mind a sense of freedom, adventure, a… Mehr…

Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, &quote;The open road&quote;-it's a phrase that calls to mind a sense of freedom, adventure, and new possibilities that make driving one of our most liberating activities. In Drive, Iain Borden explores the way driving allows us to encounter landscapes and cities around the world. He takes particular notice of how driving is portrayed in film from America to Europe to Asia and from Hollywood to the avant-garde, covering over a century of history and referencing hundreds of movies.&nbsp;From the dusty landscapes of The Grapes of Wrath to the city streets of The Italian Job; from the aesthetic delights of Rain Man and Traffic to the existential musings of Thelma and Louise and Vanishing Point;from the freeway pleasures of Radio On and London Orbital to the high-speed dangers of Crash, Bullitt, and C'tait un Rendezvous; this book shows how driving with different speeds, cars, roads, and cities provides experiences and challenges beyond compare. Borden concludes that as an integral part of modern life, car driving is something to be celebrated and even encouraged, making Drive a timely riposte to anti-car attitudes, and those blind to the richness of life behind the wheel. [PU: Reaktion Books], Seiten: 280, [ED: 1], Reaktion Books, 2013<

ISBN: 9781780230719

*Drive* - Journeys through Film Cities and Landscapes / epub eBook für 21.49 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen Medien > Bücher nein eBook als epub eBooks > Belletrist… Mehr…

*Drive* - Journeys through Film Cities and Landscapes / epub eBook für 21.49 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen Medien > Bücher nein eBook als epub eBooks > Belletristik > Erzählungen, Reaktion Books<

2013, ISBN: 9781780230719

Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, [PU: Reaktion Books], [ED: 1], Reaktion Books, 2013

ISBN: 9781780230719

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