Ross, Kristin.

Fast cars, clean bodies : decolonization and the reordering of French culture / Kristin Ross.

1st MIT Press pbk. ed.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996.

x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

An October book

Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts, as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses. The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities become the key elements in this prehistory of postmodernism in France.

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Decolonization France History 20th century.
Technology Social aspects France History 20th century.
Popular culture France History 20th century.
Racism France.
French literature 20th century History and criticism.
Authors, French 20th century Political and social views.
Décolonisation France Histoire 20e siècle.
Culture populaire France Histoire 20e siècle.
Racisme France.
Littérature française 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Écrivains français 20e siècle Pensée politique et sociale.
Authors, French Political and social views
Civilization
Civilization American influences
Decolonization
French literature
Popular culture
Racism
Technology Social aspects
Amerikanisierung
Massenkultur
Historia da europa.
culture populaire France 1950 1970.
culture de masse France 1950 1970.
France Civilization 1945-
France Civilization American influences.
France Civilisation 1945-
France Civilisation Influence américaine.
France
Frankreich
Popular culture History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

October book.

Location: Library main 284943
Call No.: BIB 224214
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available