Crash!: Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Field

＂Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the voluminous, diverse, and fascinating cultural material-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＂--

Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of 11 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.