The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950 [Audiobook] download free by Robert Wohl
- Listen audiobook: The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950
- Author: Robert Wohl
- Release date: 2007/8/16
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780300122657
- Rating: 8.25 of 10
- Votes: 617
- Review by: Daleyza Crandall
- Review rating: 8.95 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/25
- Duration: 4H46M55S in 256 kbps (75.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, FLAC, MPEG-4 DST, WAV, MP3 (compression TAR.BZ2, ARC, ZIP, RAR, RZ, AZW3)
- Total pages original book: 376
- Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 26M34S (7.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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. Historian 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 flight in this era with a fresh account of the impact of Charles Lindbergh's dramatic New York-Paris flight, then goes on to explain how Mussolini identified his Fascist regime with the modernist cachet of aviation. Wohl shows how the Hollywood film industry-drawing on the talents of such director-flyers as William Wellman and Howard Hawks and the eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes-created the aviation film; how writers such as Antoine de Saint-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 and elegantly written, this book offers a gripping account of aviation and its hold on the popular imagination during the years between 1920 and 1950.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Aircraft, History: Specific Events & Topics, Aerospace & Aviation Technology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 64.83 USD
- Dimensions: 216x267x21.34mm
- Weight: 1,315g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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