The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination 1920-1950 - Hardcover

Wohl, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300106920 ISBN 13: 9780300106923

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2005

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Book by Wohl Professor Robert

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"Wohl's enduring contribution is to analyze these promiscuous twentieth-century combinations of technology, art, nationalism, and spectacle, and to do so with unrivaled knowledge and remarkable insight." Peter Fritzsche, author of A Nation of Fliers"

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In the decades following the First World War, when aviation was still a revelation, flight was perceived as a spectacle to delight the eyes and stimulate the imagination. Robert Wohl takes us back to this time, recapturing the achievements of pioneering aviators and exploring flight as a source of cultural inspiration in the United States and Europe. Wohl begins the story of aviation in this era with a fresh account of Charles Lindbergh's dramatic New York-Paris flight in 1927, then goes on to discuss how Mussolini identified his fascist regime with the modernist cachet of aviation. Wohl shows how the Hollywood film industry - aided by such director-flyers as William Wellman, Howard Hawks, and Howard Hughes - created the aviation film; how writers such as Antoine de St-Exupery helped foster France's self-image as "the winged nation"; and how the spectacle of flight reached its tragic apotheosis during the bombing campaigns of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Generously illustrated with rare photographs, paintings, and posters, this book offers a gripping account of aviation and its hold on the popular imagination during the first half of the twentieth century.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300106920
• ISBN 13: 9780300106923
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416