Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity

Author/Contributor(s):	Siegel, Greg
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	11/05/2014
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This 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.