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Mobility without mayhem : safety, cars, and citizenship / Jeremy Packer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Packer, Jeremy, 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automobiles--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Automobiles.
- Motor vehicles--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Motor vehicles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A cultural studies account of automobiles and concerns about safety in the U.S. from the 1950s to the present.
- Contents:
- The crusade for traffic safety: mobilizing the suburban dream
- Hitching the highway to hell: media hysterics and the politics of youth mobility
- Motorcycle madness: the insane, profane, and newly tame
- Communications convoy: the CB and truckers
- Of Cadillacs and "coon cages": the racing of automobility
- Raging with a machine: neoliberalism meets the automobile
- Safety to security: future orientations of automobility.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8890-1
- OCLC:
- 213455152
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