In fast cars clean bodies decolonization and the reordering of french culture kristin ross explores the interrelation between decolonization and modernization in france ross central argument is that during the rapid modernization that occurred between the late 1950s and the early 1960s the french government engaged in a form of domestic . 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 . 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 . Fast cars clean bodies decolonization and the reordering of french culture mit press october series 1995 critics choice award 1995 laurence wylie award for french cultural studies 1997 association for french cultural anti americanism co edition with andrew ross new york university press 2004 sites . Fast cars clean bodies decolonization and the reordering of french culture 1st first edition dec 14 2020 posted by stan and jan berenstain ltd text id e92bbb9c online pdf ebook epub library responsibility by kristin ross imprint cambridge mass mit press c1995 physical description x 261 p ill 23 cm available online at the library green library find it stacks