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Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
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Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our LivesCarjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

Americans’ infatuation with their cars is critiqued in this readable treatment. Replete with the ironic and irrational aspects of owning and driving cars, it partakes of car psychology to deliver its message about the statistical costs of four-wheeled freedom. Emphasizing the attachment of values such as personal independence to car ownership, not to mention self-image and status, Lutz and Fernandez cheerily saunter through automobile advertising and movies to show how mass media exploit people’s desire to buy cars.
 
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