Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One “Jerky Nearness”: Spectatorship, Mobility, and Collision in Early Cinema 25
6. Chapter Two. Car Wreckers and Home Lovers: The Automobile in Silent Slapstick 55
7. Chapter Three. Doing Death Over: Industrial- Safety Films, Accidental- Motion Studies, and the Involuntary Crash Test Dummy 105
8. Chapter Four. Disaster Time, the Kennedy Assassination, and Andy Warhol’s Since (1966/2002) 137
9. Chapter Five. Film Falls Apart: Crash, Semen, and Pop 161
10. Chapter Six. Crash Aesthetics: Amores perros and the Dream of Cinematic Mobility 179
11. Chapter Seven. The Afterlife of Weekend: Or, The University Found on a Scrapheap 205
12. Notes 235
13. Bibliography 275
14. Index 289