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OverviewAn Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Since its invention, the automobile has been systematically ‘consumed’, to become part of the fabric of twentieth- and twenty-first-century society, its impact and perception making the car an accurate gauge of changing cultural norms and values. As it grew in popularity, the automobile conditioned the very texture of modern life, and the particularly car-centred society of contemporary France is an especially apt locus for examination. The ubiquity of the automobile across all social strata provides us with a defined lens through which to examine the evolution of French society in the modern and post-modern eras. Taking the Second World War as a pivotal moment in recent French history, this book demonstrates how the automobile was both consumed and fetishized in distinct ways before and after this conflict. The ways in which society evolved from the pre- to the post-war period allow us to view French culture through the prism of the automobile as it embodied technological and social progress in twentieth-century France. The present volume seeks to explore and interrogate the processes of representation and mediation inherent in the evolving patterns of automobile consumption, and their subsequent impacts on local and national identity, framed by a detailed case study centred on France from the late-nineteenth century to the oil crisis of the early 1970s. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Éamon Ó CofaighPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Volume: 10 ISBN: 9781802070118ISBN 10: 1802070117 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 01 June 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Theorizing the car as a fetishized commodity Chapter 2 Motor Sport in France: Commodifying the Car Chapter 3 An Object of Desire: Early 20th-Century Representations of the Car Chapter 4 Vers le Midi: The Automobile Discovered and as a Vehicle of Discovery Chapter 5 Three Ages of the Car in French Post-War Magazines Chapter 6 Evolving Critiques of the Car Conclusion BibliographyReviewsThe definitive statement in English on the post-war history of automobiles in France. This book will greatly appeal to historians and cultural studies practitioners dealing with modern France, as well as interdisciplinary scholars of automobility and those working in the cultural history of transportation and technology. David Inglis, University of Helsinki “The definitive statement in English on the post-war history of automobiles in France. This book will greatly appeal to historians and cultural studies practitioners dealing with modern France, as well as interdisciplinary scholars of automobility and those working in the cultural history of transportation and technology.” David Inglis, University of Helsinki Author InformationÉamon Ó Cofaigh is a member of Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge and lectures in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the National University of Ireland Galway. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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