LEADER 03630nam 22005415u 450 001 9910568179903321 005 20250908225850.0 010 $a1802070672 024 7 $a10.3828/9781802070118 035 $a(CKB)5590000000907697 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6986703 035 $a(PPN)266368832 035 $a(Liverpool University Press)10.3828/9781802070118 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6986703 035 $a(OCoLC)1319218646 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000907697 100 $a20250630d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $au||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aA vehicle for change$epopular representations of the automobile in 20th-century France /$fÉamon Ó Cofaigh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cLiverpool University Press$d2022 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aStudies in Modern and Contemporary France Series ;$vv.10 311 08$a1-80207-011-7 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aAn Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Since its invention, the automobile has been systematically 'consumed', to become part of the fabric of twentieth- and twenty-first-century society, its impact and perception making the car an accurate gauge of changing cultural norms and values. As it grew in popularity, the automobile conditioned the very texture of modern life, and the particularly car-centred society of contemporary France is an especially apt locus for examination. The ubiquity of the automobile across all social strata provides us with a defined lens through which to examine the evolution of French society in the modern and post-modern eras. Taking the Second World War as a pivotal moment in recent French history, this book demonstrates how the automobile was both consumed and fetishized in distinct ways before and after this conflict. The ways in which society evolved from the pre- to the post-war period allow us to view French culture through the prism of the automobile as it embodied technological and social progress in twentieth-century France. The present volume seeks to explore and interrogate the processes of representation and mediation inherent in the evolving patterns of automobile consumption, and their subsequent impacts on local and national identity, framed by a detailed case study centred on France from the late-nineteenth century to the oil crisis of the early 1970s. 410 0$aStudies in Modern and Contemporary France ;$v10 517 $aA Vehicle for Change 606 $aAutomobiles$xSocial aspects$xHistory 606 $aTransportation and state$xHistory 606 $aAutomobiles$zFrance 607 $aFrance$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aAutomobiles$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aTransportation and state$xHistory. 615 0$aAutomobiles 676 $a629.2220944 700 $aÓ Cofaigh$b Éamon$01453241 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910568179903321 996 $aA vehicle for change$93655814 997 $aUNINA