| Description |
xxii, 262 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword : getting behind the wheel / Daniel Miller -- A gated community on wheels / Randel D. Hanson -- The H3 : television advertising and the reconfigured homeland / Julia Himberg -- Becoming auto-mobile, or taking a road less traveled / J. Z. Long -- The Hummer : the return of the hard body / James K. Walker -- Armored bodies : the Hummer, the Schwarzenegger persona, and consumer appeal / Joanne Clarke Dillman -- The "stop and stare" aesthetics of the Hummer : aesthetic illusion as an independent function / Ellen Gorman -- Primordial enchantment : print media, promotional culture, and the Hummer's Siren song / Shane Gunster -- The Hummer as cultural and political myth : a multi-sited ethnographic analysis / Scott A. Lukas -- The H2 - the Humvee's kinder, gentler other / Elaine Cardenas -- (R)evolutions : myths of the Hummer in The New York Times / Christopher M. Sutch -- Homeland security : the Hummer as apocalyptic vehicle / Matt Yockey -- The Hummer as brute image / Alain Silver -- Resisting Hummers through visual rhetoric : FUH2.com as counterpublic / Derek S. Foster -- Auto militarization : citizen soldiers, the Hummer, and the war on terror / Jeremy Packer -- The Hummer : race, military, and consumption politics / Julie Sze -- I am the Humvee / Rene Cardenas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Hummer trucks.
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| Author |
Cardenas, Elaine, 1949-
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Gorman, Ellen, 1959-
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| LC no. |
2006103469 |
| ISBN |
9780739114766 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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073911476X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780739114773 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0739114778 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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