Fast Cars, Clean Bodies (Paperback)

Kristin Ross

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: MIT Press Ltd, Cambridge, Mass., 1996

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Paperback. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts-automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, film, popular fiction, even structuralism-as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses.In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces: social and private, textual and cinematic, national and international. The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness in the capital and the colonies, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities (revolutionary, corporate, and structural) become the key elements in this prehistory of postmodernism in France.Modernization ideology, Ross argues, offered the promise of limitless, even timeless, development. By situating the rise of "end of history" ideologies within the context of France's transition into mass culture and consumption, Ross returns the touted timelessness of modernization to history. She shows how the realist fiction and film of the period, as well as the work of social theorists such as Barthes, Lefebvre, and Morin who began at the time to conceptualize "everyday life," laid bare the disruptions and the social costs of events. And she argues that the logic of the racism prevalent in France today, focused on the figure of the immigrant worker, is itself the outcome of the French state's embrace of capitalist modernization ideology in the 1950s and 1960s. Examines the decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s, when France shifted from an agrarian, insular society to a decolonized, Americanized and industrial one. The car, the new cult of cleanliness, and the waning of Sartre from national attention, focus in this prehistory of postmodern France. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies (Paperback)
Autor
Kristin Ross
Editorial
MIT Press Ltd, Cambridge, Mass.
Año de publicación
1996
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0262680912
ISBN 13
9780262680912

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