03630nam 22005415u 450 991056817990332120250908225850.0180207067210.3828/9781802070118(CKB)5590000000907697(MiAaPQ)EBC6986703(PPN)266368832(Liverpool University Press)10.3828/9781802070118(Au-PeEL)EBL6986703(OCoLC)1319218646(EXLCZ)99559000000090769720250630d2022 uy 0engu|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA vehicle for changepopular representations of the automobile in 20th-century France /Éamon Ó Cofaigh1st ed.Liverpool University Press20221 online resourceStudies in Modern and Contemporary France Series ;v.101-80207-011-7 Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1 Theorizing the Car as a Fetishized Commodity -- 2 Motor Sport in France: Commodifying the Car -- 3 An Object of Desire: Early 20th-Century Representations of the Car -- 4 Vers le Midi: The Automobile Discovered and as a Vehicle of Discovery -- 5 Three Ages of the Car in French Post-War Magazines -- 6 Evolving Critiques of the Car -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.An 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.Studies in Modern and Contemporary France ;10A Vehicle for ChangeAutomobilesSocial aspectsHistoryTransportation and stateHistoryAutomobilesFranceFranceSocial conditions20th centuryAutomobilesSocial aspectsHistory.Transportation and stateHistory.Automobiles629.2220944Ó Cofaigh Éamon1453241MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910568179903321A vehicle for change3655814UNINA