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		CRASH Based on the novel by J.G. Ballard Screenplay by David Cronenberg Produced by David Cronenberg Directed by David Cronenberg Cast List: James Spader James Ballard Holly Hunter Dr. Helen Remington Elias Koteas Vaughan Deborah Unger Catherine Ballard Rosanna Arquette Gabrielle Peter MacNeil Seagrave EXT.
		Inside, covered with dirt and flaked plastic, are a set of route maps, a mildly pornographic novel, a Polaroid of Renata sitting in the car near a water reservoir with her breasts exposed.
		For example, the car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event - a liberation of sexual energy that mediates the sexuality of those who have died with an intensity impossible in any other form.
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	Nicholas Ruddick- Ballard/Crash/Baudrillard
		Crash is hypercritical, in the sense of being beyond the critical.
		The story concludes that for crash victims, "the car crash is seen as a fertilizing rather than a destructive experience, a liberation of sexual and machine libido" (125).
		For those aware of Crash’s intertextual relation with Ballard’s other fiction, the author’s superimposition of his name upon his protagonist is metaphorical, offering a provocative analogy with the way that latent reality, freed of repression, superimposes itself upon manifest reality in the fictional world of the text.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/58/ruddick58art.htm (3066 words)

	Crash Guitar Tabs and Chords
		Crash cymbal, a type of cymbal that is commonly found in drum kits, often used for a cartoon "crash" sound-effect.
		Crash (1996 film) is the name of a 1996 film directed by David Cronenberg based on the J. Ballard book of the same name.
		Crash (2004 film) is the name of a 2004 film directed by Paul Haggis about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles.
	www.guitarmasta.net /c/crash (270 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Crash: Books: J.G. Ballard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The backdrop of the novel is the alienating no-man's land on the sprawling outskirts of a metropolis (London).
		This isn't an erotic novel, the sexual content is handled in such a way to make it clinical, almost replulsive to the reader (sexual organs are described with as much enthusiasm as a steering wheel column).
		Ballard's novel brings to light the desensitised nature of human beings who watch mass murders on the nightly news with as much affect as the advertisement for soap powder which follows.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Crash-J-G-Ballard/dp/0099334917 (1480 words)

	Crash
		Based on J.G. Ballard's novel (1973), it is a journey into self-destruction and sexual feelings related to car crashes.
		Crash is a film about modern society in which people try to escape their dull life through life-threatening excitement.
		But Crash is neither sexually arousing (at least not for non-sadomasochist viewers) nor is it meant to be a pornographic film.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo4/crash.htm (394 words)

	Review \| Crash
		Each story and novel describes in clinical and incisive detail a new territory of that surreal inner landscape.
		The most important continent on this Ballardian map is Crash, a 1972 stream-of-consciousness novel that deals with the impact of our culture's obsessions -- with celebrity, automobiles, progress, body image, pornography, social conformity -- on a fictionalized James Ballard's rapport with his environment, his sexuality, his relationships, his identity.
		Cronenberg's Crash may have accurately depicted many of the scenes in Ballard's Crash, but it betrayed the text's meaning by contextualizing them differently.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/crash.html (734 words)

	Crash - Iain Sinclair
		The low-key performances, the subdued light, the lacklustre physical permutations, all contribute to an overwhelming sense of alienation.
		Ballard's Crash is an almost unreadable book (see our review), but it is based on a very interesting idea.
		Nevertheless, the essay is a valuable gloss on both the novel and the film and we certainly recommend it.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/sinclairi/crash.htm (851 words)

	Crash
		The plot of Crash is simple: a young TV ad director, James Ballard (Spader), falls in with an avant-garde theatre group led by a former expert in computerized traffic systems called Vaughan (Koteas), who stages clandestine re-enactments of the crash-deaths of famous media icons such as James Dean and Jayne Mansfield.
		Cut To: The Fatal Crash of James Dean, the most interesting scene in the movie, that is, the staging of the James Dean death crash by Vaughan and his partner Seagrave on a lonely road which just happens to have some bleachers for the small audience of Crash Theatre devotees.
		for example, the car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event, a liberation of sexual energy, mediating the sexuality of those who have died with an intensity that's impossible for any other form....
	www.culturecourt.com /F/Voyeur/Crash.htm (2030 words)

	Crash, A Serial Novel
		If you are new to the novel, please begin reading at the first chapter.
		I want a full story of his account of the crash, and how he is recovering from this catastrophe.” Sara dropped her voice while saying “catastrophe,” making it seem more ominous than it really should have.
		It might just be the fragment of the wooden propeller that knocked me out during the crash, but I think these feelings I have for her are real in the most complete way possible.
	crashnovel.blogspot.com (5325 words)

	Controlling the crash: CEE researcher proposes novel auto safety system
		Just before a crash, the system would proactively deploy exterior airbags to form an air cushion between the vehicle and the colliding objects to reduce the crash damage to the vehicle and its occupants.
		Some of the crash energy would be transferred to heat energy, deformation of the bubble and a controlled release of air," Ran says.
		In a potential crash, the system detects the danger given the car's speed and proximity to the hazard and analyzes the vehicle's response capability such as braking or maneuvers.
	www.engr.wisc.edu /alumni/perspective/26.3/autosafety.html (561 words)

	Snow Crash
		Snow Crash goes into the theory of lethal texts in detail, defining them as "speech with magical force." Another character, the Librarian, explains that the Sumerians developed what they called "nam-shubs", incantations which destroyed the ability of their hearers to understand language.
		The novel suggests that it disappeared as a consequence of the nam-shubs, which spread through the population like a virus and destroyed its linguistic unity.
		Both invoke the Babel myth and the myth of a pre-Babelian ur-language: in Snow Crash it is Sumerian, in Macroscope it is the galactic symbology.
	deoxy.org /alephnull/snow.htm (582 words)

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		In the scenario from Crash, the man in the hospital is James Ballard (James Spader, of sex, lies, and videotape), a television producer with an active extra-marital libido.
		The car crash is a moment—one moment—in which all bodily sensations are carried to their greatest, most gruesome extreme.
		Cronenberg, however, remains conscious of the untenability of this metaphor, the fact that, as an instant of destruction, a crash is almost the polar opposite of sex, the moment of fusion and sometimes of actual creation.
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	Crash (novel) at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They re-enact famous car crashes (such as those that killed James Dean and Jayne Mansfield), cause accidents themselves, and document other crashes.
		Crash is a story about car-crash fetishists, who get their sexual kicks by staging and participating in very real car-crashes, often with very real consequences.
		The human characters in the novel are cold and passionless, unable to get sexually excited unless some kind of technology is involved (typically architecture and cars).
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/c/cr/Crash_(novel).htm (434 words)

	Crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crash (Schedule duration), the effort to reduce the overall duration of a schedule
		Crash, a jazz-rock band from Warsaw, Poland, that performed in the 1970's and '80's
		Crash was the ring name for the late Mike Lockwood in WWE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crash (452 words)

	Crash - Cannes Press Release
		The immediate subject matter of CRASH is the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger.
		Crash is a novel of ideas, one that requires patience as well as curiousity.
		Crash is an autobiographical novel in the sense that it is about my inner life, my imaginative life.
	www.davidcronenberg.de /crashpresskit.html (5542 words)

	Crash . Weekly Alibi . 03-19-97
		Crash has received an undue amount of publicity because of its uneasy mix of sex and violence.
		Crash is more obsessed with the aftermath of the car crash, with the "ritual" that surrounds them.
		When Ballard's novel was written in 1973, the automobile might have retained some aura of "newness." Nowadays, with technology running so unrestrained around us, it's difficult to imagine something as ingrained as the automobile as a symbol of rampant technology.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/alibi/c/crash_f.html (914 words)

	Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
		From there the novel amounts to a race to avoid the spread of Snow Crash, which turns out to be both a computer virus and a real virus -- of a very unusual (and pretty clever) sort.
		The other aspect of the novel that is exceptional is his description of what the world has come to, everyday life in the disorganized remnants of America.
		The novel collapses into a race against the clock -- a little too simple, a little too predictable -- but it is still fairly exciting.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/stephenn/snowcrash.htm (1284 words)

	Amazon.ca: Crash (Widescreen): DVD: David Cronenberg,James Spader,Holly Hunter,Elias Koteas,Deborah Unger,Rosanna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Soon after a head on car crash James Ballard (Spader) is introduced to a world of fetishists who find arousal in mixing raw sexuality, the mangling of human bodies, and the twisted steel of a fresh auto accident.
		crash is a unique film with an equally unique vision and it ranks as one of the most artistically vital films of the last 20 years.
		After Vaughan repeatedly crashes the left front bumper of his Lincoln into a junker James Ballard is sitting in, causing major damage to the bumper and the lights, Vaughan is soon shown driving on th...
	www.amazon.ca /Crash-Widescreen-David-Cronenberg/dp/6305161968 (2092 words)

	Amazon.ca: Crash : A Novel: Books: J.G Ballard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film.
		Given all this, the reason I allowed this novel to have two stars is because of the lack of emotions in the characters and the storyline - this seems to be a central theme.
		This is a heavily stylized work of fiction and any of the alleged "shortcomings" of the novel are not mistakes or flaws in Ballard's design, but rather a comprehensive theme of mechanization, depersonalization and the destruction of even transgressive sexual acts as passionate, warm, and human.
	www.amazon.ca /Crash-Novel-J-G-Ballard/dp/0312420331 (1754 words)

	Crash
		J.G. Ballard's graphic novel Crash (1973) followed the lives of characters who seek sexual gratification amidst car accidents, bodily mutilation, spilt semen on car upholstery, and dreams of head on collisions with Elizabeth Taylor.
		Ballard described the novel as, "the first pornographic novel based on technology," and went as far as to name the protagonist James Ballard.
		Another striking moment from Crash is the apocalyptic crash scene that Ballard, his wife, and their psychopathic friend Vaughn visit.
	www.debased.com /content/movies/c/crash-new.html (370 words)

	Amazon.com: Crash: A Novel: Books: J. G. Ballard (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The woman's body had ended up mostly nude on the rear deck of the passenger compartment, and he said people were driving by gawking at the scene and rubbernecking, and he suddenly got the idea that the whole thing was very erotic for them despite the obviously tragic circumstances and the woman's untimely death.
		J.G. Ballard is known as a contraversial and aggresive writer, and Crash is a prodigious accumulation of sex and fantasy.
		At the same time, the car crash is a voyer's delight that satisfies a primitive instinctive enjoyment gained from the destruction and deformation of smooth metal surfaces and soft human tissue.
	www.amazon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312420331/v2organisa (2728 words)

	Fine Line Features \| Crash \| Production Notes
		Crash had its world premiere at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where it sparked considerable debate and ultimately received a Special Jury Prize "For Originality, For Daring, and For Audacity." Since then Crash has continued to be the subject of acclaim and controversy.
		Crash is a novel of ideas, one that requires patience as well as curiosity.
		Crash is equally frank in its examination of the strange possibilities for sex and human relationships in the artificial landscape of the machine age.
	finelinefeatures.com /crash/allnotes.htm (6806 words)

	Crash (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The book explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities, disaster media and technological commodities.
		The lyrics for the song "Warm Leatherette" by The Normal were written in reference to the novel.
		The concept of someone being aroused by car crashes is parodied in Comedy Central's Drawn Together in the episode Spelling Applebee's
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crash_(novel) (446 words)

	First Peak-Oil Novel Published in U.S.! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this way the novel attempts to integrate the two sides of the mind – imaginative and analytical.
		The Hydrocarbons apparently had every intention of using up every prospect of the future – selling it off one barrel of oil at a time, one truck-load of mineral-ore at a time, one cubic foot of gas at a time – to pay for the prolonging of their present.
		When the crash came, the world split along a different seam – which may have been the origin of the expression ‘seam-types.’ Seam-types were the ones who saw the fracturing as it was beginning to occur.
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	Fine Line Features \| Crash \| J.G. Ballard
		People ask me how I would feel if young men, after seeing the movie, went and crashed their cars into other people, and of course, if this did happen, it would be a tragedy.
		I talked to David about it, and we agreed that he couldn't use an actress who is a current sex-symbol in the same way that Elizabeth Taylor appears in the novel, Crash.
		Vaughan, the central figure in Crash, wants to die in a crash with famous person, and he's obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor's anatomy as he's seen it in magazines and films.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /crash/cmp/ballard-interview.html (1603 words)

	Amazon.com: Snow Crash: Books: Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I came to _Snow Crash_ on the recommendation of a few people who had read it (they called it "great!" and "hilarious!," and knowing that Neal Stephenson is sometimes listed as a "cyberpunk" writer along with William Gibson et al.
		Snow Crash is about the world in the not to distant future were the government has folded and everything is run by corporations.
		That is the case with the excessive Sumerian mythic components of Snow Crash (which don't add enough to the plot for the pages and pages of explication they receive, a source of complaint for many); and it is doubly true of the rambling Baroque Cycle, which few seem able to finish.
	www.amazon.com /Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553562614 (2666 words)

	Snow Crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Snow Crash is a science fiction novel written by Neal Stephenson and published in 1992.
		It follows in the footsteps of cyberpunk novels by authors like William Gibson and Rudy Rucker, but breaks away from this tradition by having a heavy dose of satire and fl humor.
		As the name flippantly suggests, the hero of the novel, a hacker, swordsman, former Mafia-employed pizza delivery man. Hiro is broke in real life, but has extensive access to the Metaverse as one of its original developers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snow_Crash (2180 words)

	Crash (novel) - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Crash is a novel by J.G. Ballard first published in 1973 about a subculture of people who are sexually aroused by car crashes.
		This caused the UK tabloid press to condemn it as sick and evil, though few papers pointed out that it was based on a novel by the author of Empire of the Sun.
		Although passed by the British Board of Film Classification with an 18 Certificate it was being banned by Westminster Council, meaning it could not be shown in any cinema in Central London.
	education.music.us /C/Crash-(novel).htm (768 words)

	Terminal Event: A Novel by James Stewart Thayer
		This new air crash novel by thriller writer James Thayer is loosely based on the TWA 800 disaster.
		It depicts the story of a complex air crash investigation as seen through the eyes of a former NTSB investigator whose wife was a victim of the crash.
		According to AVweb's Phil Kolczynski — an attorney who has been involved in many crash cases at the FAA, DOT, and in private practice — Thayer's latest page-turner is the best of its genre in recent memory, offering unparalleled technical accuracy, believable characters, a tight plot with plenty of action, and a surprise ending.
	www.avweb.com /news/reviews/184313-1.html (256 words)

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