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Paul Gormley is Field Leader of Media, Communication and Screen Studies at the University of East London and has just published The New-Brutality Film; Race and Affect in Contemporary American Film (Intellect 2005)
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Crash and the City

by Paul Gormley • 7 May 07
Journal: Reviews | film

The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard once wrote that “the American city seems to have stepped right out of the movies” by which he meant that the experience of visiting a U.S. city itself is one that is produced directly by…