Название: The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950
Автор: Robert Wohl
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Размер: 136,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

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-Exupéry helped foster France’s self-image as the “winged nation”.