Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction, David Thoms, Len Holden, Tim Claydon; Part One: The car as image: ’Oh what a feeling!’ - the literatures of the car, Nicholas Zurbrugg; More than a marque: The car as symbol: aspects of culture and ideology, Len Holden; Motor car ownership in 20th-century Britain: a matter of convenience or a marque of status, David Thoms; ’Savage servility: cars in the psyche, Sebastian Lockwood; Mad Max and Aboriginal automation: putting cars to use in contemporary Australian road films and narratives, Ken Gelder; Part Two: Entertainment and Leisure: ’Poop, poop!’ - an early case of joy-riding by an upper class amphibian, Kathleen Bell; Automania: animated automobiles 1950-68, Paul Wells; Cars and girls - the car, masculinity and pop music, Duncan Heining; Spectacles of speed and endurance: the formative years of motor racing in Europe, Daryl Adair; Classic and desirable: the mystique of the British sports car, Steven Morewood; ’Four wheels good; two wheels bad: the motor cycle versus the light motor car 1919-59, Steve Koerner; Taste, status and middle class motoring in interwar Britain, Sean O’Connell; Part Three: Producing and Selling Cars: Shop floor culture in the Coventry motor industry, c.1896-1920, Brad Beaven; Cars, culture and war, Tom Donnelly; Images of disorder: car workers’ militancy and the representation of industrial relations in Britain, 1950-79, Tim Claydon; Imagination and passivity in leisure: Coventry car workers and their families from the 1920s to the 1990s, Paul Thompson; ’Mini loves dressing up’: selling cars to women, Jenny Rice and Carol Saunders; Transports of difference and delight: advertising and the motor car in 20th-century Britain, Tim O’Sullivan.