Fast cars, clean bodies : decolonization and the reordering of French culture / Kristin Ross.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1995Description: x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262680912
- 9780262680912
- 0262181614
- 9780262181617
- 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
- France -- Civilization -- 1945-
- France -- Civilization -- American influences
- 944.083
- DC33.7. R65 1995
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. La Belle Americaine -- Car History -- Moving Pictures -- Cars, Couples, and Careers -- 2. Hygiene and Modernization -- Housekeeping -- Keeping House -- 3. Couples -- The Great Divorce -- The Making of the New French Middle Class -- Neobourgeois Space -- 4. New Men -- New Men and the Death of Man -- Cadres -- Immobile Time -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Selected Filmography -- Index.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 944.083 ROS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A174661B |
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"An October book.".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. La Belle Americaine -- Car History -- Moving Pictures -- Cars, Couples, and Careers -- 2. Hygiene and Modernization -- Housekeeping -- Keeping House -- 3. Couples -- The Great Divorce -- The Making of the New French Middle Class -- Neobourgeois Space -- 4. New Men -- New Men and the Death of Man -- Cadres -- Immobile Time -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Selected Filmography -- Index.
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