Fast cars, clean bodies : decolonialization and the reordering of French culture

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Title:

Fast cars, clean bodies : decolonialization and the reordering of French culture

Author:

Ross, Kristin.

ISBN:

9780262181617

9780262680912

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Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996.

Physical Description:

261 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

An October book.

Subject Term:

Authors, French -- 20th century -- Political and social views.

Decolonization -- France -- History -- 20th century.

French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Popular culture -- France -- History -- 20th century.

Racism -- France.

Technology -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

France -- Civilization -- American influences.

France -- Civilization -- 1945-

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This work 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.

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