CRASH!

Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of 12 books, including the influential Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (1998), The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (2018), and Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers (2021). He writes about film, travel, ecocriticism, and culture for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema, Film International, Common Knowledge, Salon, Huffington Post, The Conversation, and truthout. He has been interviewed about his books on NPR, BBC, CNN, and numerous podcasts. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

• List of Illustrations1. Aviation and Its Discontents 2. Plane Crashes Before Planes Diversion: Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-88/09 3. Existential Aviation and Poetic Premonitions of Death 4. The Day the Music Died 5. Crashes in Art 6. Art in Crashes7. Race, Crash, and Gender Diversion: UTA 772 Memorial 8. I Will Survive 9. The Zen and Karma of Plane Crashes NotesSelect BibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

Malamud's Crash! is a high flying, acrobatic, daring, jet-propelled analysis of aviation disasters in art, literature, poetry, music, and real life. It's a definitive, obsessive, sometimes even fetishistic investigation into what happens when things go wrong in the skies. An in-depth humanist study of a common nightmare, Crash! is the cultural black box of plane crash residue.