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Autopia : Cars and Culture, Paperback by Wollen, Peter (EDT); Kerr, Joe (EDT)...
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- ISBN
- 9781861891327
- Book Title
- Autopia : Cars and Culture
- Item Length
- 9.8 in
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Transportation, Social Science
- Topic
- Automotive / General, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Item Width
- 8.2 in
- Item Weight
- 49.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Product Information
The reach of the car today is almost universal, and its effect on landscapes, cityscapes, cultures - indeed, on the very fabric of the modern world - is profound. Cars have brought benefits to individuals in terms of mobility and expanded horizons, but the cost has been very high in terms of damage to the environment and the consumption of precious resources. Despite the growing belief that a Faustian price is now being paid for the freedom cars have bestowed on us, we are none the less manufacturing them in ever greater numbers. Autopia is the first book to explore the culture of the motor car in the widest possible sense. Featuring newly commissioned essays by writers, critics, historians, artists and film-makers, as well as reprinting key texts, it examines the effect of the car throughout the world, including the USA, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, China, Cuba, India and South Africa. In this book the car is treated neither as a technological fetish object nor as an instrument of danger. Instead, it is examined as a hugely important determinant of 20th-century culture, neither wholly good nor an unmitigated disaster, and certainly endlessly fascinating. Contributors include Michael Bracewell, Ziauddin Sardar, Al Rees, Martin Pawley, Donald Richie and Peter Hamilton. Key texts by Marshall Berman, Jane Jacobs, Roland Barthes, Marc Aug and others.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Reaktion Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1861891326
ISBN-13
9781861891327
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2398717
Product Key Features
Book Title
Autopia : Cars and Culture
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Automotive / General, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Social Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
8.2 in
Item Weight
49.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hm621
Reviews
This is the first book to capture the cultural effects of the car on a global scale and is recommended, To download some sample pages from Autopia please clickhere(1Mb). 'This collection . . . takes a broad view of how we live with cars and their influence on society . . . Several of the pieces would not be out of place in a travel book, and give the collection a real richness and relevance, while the excellent photographs - many in colour - bring the work to life, Critically sophisticated without ever being merely modish, this book provides an overview that's genuinely illuminating and invariably fun to read
Table of Content
Introduction: Cars and Culture - Peter Wollen Thematic Introductions - Joe Kerr CARS IN CULTURE Automobiles and Art - Peter Wollen Accidents: The Car and Literature - Allen Samuels No Particular Place to Go - Patrick Field Crossroads: The Automobile, Rock and Roll and Democracy - E.L. Widmer Vanishing Points - David Pascoe Moving Spaces - A.L. Rees Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Cars in American Films - Eric Mottram CARS AND CAPITAL Trouble in Motor City - Joe Kerr Some Thoughts on Car Culture in Japan - Donald Richie Technik - Dirk Leach Riding the Survivors of the Soviet Union - Michael R. Leaman Our Cars in Havana - Viviana Narotzky Engines of Revolution: Car Cultures in China - Geremie R. Barmé The Lada: A Cultural Icon - Peter Hamilton Automobile Metempsychoses in the Land of Dracula - Adrian Otoiu The Ambassador from India - Ziauddin Sardar Dangerous but Irrepressible: Cars and Driving in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Catherine Addison Automonster - Christopher Pinney MOTOR SPACES Robert Moses: The Expressway World - Marshall Berman Driving the American Landscape - Andrew Cross Erosion of Cities or Attrition of Automobiles - Jane Jacobs The Asphalt Exodus - Jane Holtz Kay L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay - David Brodsly Pleasure and the Motorway - Richard J. Williams Fade to Grey: Motorways and Monotony - Michael Bracewell Roundabouts and Yellow Lines - Marc Augé Traffic - Ian Parker Come Together - Sandy McCreery Squealing Wheels and Flying Fists - Jack Sargeant Motopia: Cities, Cars and Architecture - Murray Fraser & Joe Kerr MYTHS AND MOTORS The Birth of the Automobile - Ilya Ehrenburg The New Citroën - Roland Barthes Sexual Ambiguity and Automotive Engineering - Patrick Keiller America's Love Affair with the Automobile in the Television Age - Karal Ann Marling Men, Motors, Markets and Women - Grace Lees-Maffei The Downfall of the Dymaxion Car - Martin Pawley References Bibliography Contributors Acknowledgements Photographic Acknowledgements Index
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-374199
Dewey Decimal
306.4/819
Dewey Edition
22
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