Since Princess Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. The principal purpose of this collection of essays is to subject texts or films, within which crashes figure, to well-defined cultural study.
It builds on scholarly work in the area of celebrity politics to develop an original analytic approach that blends the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu with the assemblage theory of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.