Fast Cars, Clean Bodies

出版者:The MIT Press

作者:Kristin Ross

页数:273

出版时间:1996-02-28

价格:USD 27.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780262680912

图书标签:翻过空间批判理论空间社会批判理论文化研究政治学戰後法國

Fast Cars, Clean Bodies 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.In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces: social and private, textual and cinematic, national and international. The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness in the capital and the colonies, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities (revolutionary, corporate, and structural) become the key elements in this prehistory of postmodernism in France.Modernization ideology, Ross argues, offered the promise of limitless, even timeless, development. By situating the rise of "end of history" ideologies within the context of France's transition into mass culture and consumption, Ross returns the touted timelessness of modernization to history. She shows how the realist fiction and film of the period, as well as the work of social theorists such as Barthes, Lefebvre, and Morin who began at the time to conceptualize "everyday life," laid bare the disruptions and the social costs of events. And she argues that the logic of the racism prevalent in France today, focused on the figure of the immigrant worker, is itself the outcome of the French state's embrace of capitalist modernization ideology in the 1950s and 1960s.An October Book

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Only browsed through. The most interesting may be Chapter 4: New Men. (PS: I have seen almost all films studied in this book, HA!)

Only browsed through. The most interesting may be Chapter 4: New Men. (PS: I have seen almost all films studied in this book, HA!)

Only browsed through. The most interesting may be Chapter 4: New Men. (PS: I have seen almost all films studied in this book, HA!)

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对Frenchness的空间经验的考古，问题在于everyday life是solution还是进一步的depravity？（以及，对于混迹St Germain des Près充满ennui和nihilism的petit bourgeois intellectuels，如何有革命性和行动的可能？）