Title & Author:

Autopia : cars and culture / edited by Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2002.

Description:

400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-392) and index.
Introduction : cars and culture / Peter Wollen -- Thematic introductions / Joe Kerr.
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 -- 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 / Vivian 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Summary:

"Autopia is not written by car buffs or technical enthusiasts - it consists of over 25 newly commissioned essays, as well as a number of reprinted key texts, by writers, critics, historians, artists and film-makers, all of whom share a critical concern with the consequences of a century of driving. In Autopia the car is treated not as a technological fetish object nor as an instrument of danger. Instead it is examined as a hugely important determinant of twentieth-century culture, neither wholly good nor an unmitigated disaster, but certainly endlessly fascinating."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

1861891326 (pbk.)
9781861891327 (pbk.)

Subject:

Automobiles Social aspects.
Culture.
Automobiles Aspect social.
culture note.
Auto's.
Culturele aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.

Added entries:

Wollen, Peter.
Kerr, Joe, 1958-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226630
Call No.: HE5611 .A8 2002
Status: Available