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This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the avant-garde. Drive is about dynamic journeys, experiences and speeds, rooted in specific places and roads, and expanded into the realm of cinema, art and video games. It moves from the gentle deserts of The Grapes of Wrath to the adventurous city streets of The Italian Job, from the aesthetic delights of Rain Man and Traffic 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'etait un Rendezvous. It shows how various kinds of driving - with different speeds, cars, attitudes, roads and cities - provide experiences and values that we igre at our peril. Written by a leading urban and cultural historian, Drive's conclusion is a timely riposte to commonplace anti-car attitudes.

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PublisherReaktion Books

ISBN-101780230265

ISBN-139781780230269

eBay Product ID (ePID)117485589

Product Key Features

Number of Pages280 Pages

Publication NameDrive : Journeys Through Film, Cities and Landscapes

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

SubjectSocial Studies: General

TypeTextbook

AuthorIain Borden

Subject AreaTravel, Art, Transportation, Performing Arts

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Length8 in

Item Width6 in

Height200mm

Width150mm

Weight544g

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Date of Publication07/12/2012

Place of PublicationLondon

Spine18mm

GenreSocial Studies: General

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom

Author BiographyIain Borden is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He is the author and editor of many books, including Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body (2001).

Content Note80 Black & White Illustrations, 40 Colour Illustrations

ImprintReaktion Books