{"product_id":"crash-by-professor-randy-malamud-9781501394775","title":"CRASH!","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCRASH!\u003c\/em\u003e explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlane crashes are covered extensively, but they are not analysed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA unique and extraordinarily wide-ranging cultural examination, \u003cem\u003eCRASH!\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on a journey that includes reflections on flight phobia, themes of crash survival (with asides on \u003cem\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430337822956,"sku":"9781501394775","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781501394775.jpg?v=1774559157","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/crash-by-professor-randy-malamud-9781501394775","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}