Introduction: Cars and Culture - Peter Wollen Thematic Introductions - Joe Kerr CARS IN CULTURE 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 CARS AND CAPITAL 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 - Viviana 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 MOTOR SPACES 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 MYTHS AND MOTORS The 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 References Bibliography Contributors Acknowledgements Photographic Acknowledgements Index.