Fast Cars, Clean Bodies - Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture

Examines the decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s, when France shifted from an agrarian, insular society to a decolonized, Americanized and industrial one. The car, the new cult of cleanliness, and the waning of Sartre from national attention, focus in this prehistory of postmodern France.