Autopia

By: Joe Kerr (Editor), Peter Wollen (Editor)

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Paperback | 2 November 2002

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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 Auge and others.

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To download some sample pages from Autopia please click here (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 The List, Glasglow Critically sophisticated without ever being merely modish, this book provides an overview that's genuinely illuminating and invariably fun to read Auto Express, London This is the first book to capture the cultural effects of the car on a global scale and is recommended Library Journal

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Non-Fiction Transportation Road & Motor Vehicles in General Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Politics & Government Public Administration Industry & Industrial Studies

Transport Industries

Introduction: Cars and Culture	p. 10
Thematic Introductions
Cars in Culture	p. 21
Automobiles and Art	p. 25
Accidents: The Car and Literature	p. 50
No Particular Place to Go	p. 59
Crossroads: The Automobile, Rock and Roll and Democracy	p. 65
Vanishing Points	p. 75
Moving Spaces	p. 83
Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Cars in American Films	p. 95
Cars and Capital	p. 115
Trouble in Motor City	p. 125
Some Thoughts on Car Culture in Japan	p. 139
Technik	p. 147
Riding the Survivors of the Soviet Union	p. 153
Our Cars in Havana	p. 169
Engines of Revolution: Car Cultures in China	p. 177
The Lada: A Cultural Icon	p. 191
Automobile Metempsychoses in the Land of Dracula	p. 199
The Ambassador from India	p. 209
Dangerous but Irrepressible: Cars and Driving in Post-Apartheid South Africa	p. 219
Automonster	p. 227
Motor Spaces	p. 233
Robert Moses: The Expressway World	p. 244
Driving the American Landscape	p. 249
Erosion of Cities or Attrition of Automobiles	p. 259
The Asphalt Exodus	p. 266
L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay	p. 277
Pleasure and the Motorway	p. 281
Fade to Grey: Motorways and Monotony	p. 288
Roundabouts and Yellow Lines	p. 293
Traffic	p. 296
Come Together	p. 307
Squealing Wheels and Flying Fists	p. 312
Motopia: Cities, Cars and Architecture	p. 315
Myths and Motors	p. 327
The Birth of the Automobile	p. 337
The New Citroen	p. 340
Sexual Ambiguity and Automotive Engineering	p. 342
America's Love Affair with the Automobile in the Television Age	p. 354
Men, Motors, Markets and Women	p. 363
The Downfall of the Dymaxion Car	p. 371
References	p. 379
Bibliography	p. 389
Contributors	p. 393
Acknowledgements	p. 395
Photographic Acknowledgements	p. 396
Index	p. 397
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