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Book SynopsisThis provocative book considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes, and argues that “forensic media” thereby transmute disruptive chance occurrences into reassuring narratives of causal succession.
Trade Review"Siegel’s thoroughly researched and beautifully written book is essential reading for anyone concerned with how media help us construct and imagine both what has happened in the past and what might happen in the future." -- Jaimie Baron * Television & New Media *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Accidents and Forensics 1 1. Engineering Detectives 31 2. Tracings 65 3. Black Boxes 89 4. Tests and Split Seconds 143 Epilogue. Retrospective Prophecies 195 Notes 215 Bibliography 237 Index 251
