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Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars and car design than in any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness and 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 imagination and a detailed exploration of the circumstances of 24 celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac, in 2004. The author concludes by confronting the imminent demise of the car itself.
Contents
6 Foreword
10 Death Drive
30 Isadora Duncan
40 Jean Bugatti
50 Nathanael West
60 General George S Patton
70 James Dean
80 Jackson Pollock
90 Dennis Brain
96 Mike Hawthorn
106 Albert Camus
118 Eddie Cochran
126 Prince Aly Khan
134 Ernie Kovacs
142 Porfirio Rubirosa
152 Giuseppe Farina
162 Tara Browne
170 Jayne Mansfield
182 Marc Bolan
192 Mike Hailwood
202 Princess Grace of Monaco
212 Aldo Rossi
218 Ayrton Senna
226 Princess Diana
232 Helmut Newton
240 The Age of Combustion
252 Index
254 Credits
