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Foreword: Getting Behind the Wheel | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xv |
Myth and Space | p. 1 |
A Gated Community on Wheels | p. 3 |
The H3: Television Advertising and the Reconfigured Homeland | p. 15 |
Becoming Auto-Mobile, or Taking a Road Less Traveled | p. 29 |
The Hummer: The Return of the Hard Body | p. 47 |
Myth and Body | p. 63 |
Armored Bodies: The Hummer, The Schwarzenegger Persona, and Consumer Appeal | p. 65 |
The "Stop and Stare" Aesthetics of the Hummer: Aesthetic Illusion as an Independent Function | p. 81 |
Primordial Enchantment: Print Media, Promotional Culture, and the Hummer's Siren Song | p. 91 |
The Hummer as Cultural and Political Myth: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Analysis | p. 115 |
Myth and Discourse | p. 135 |
The H2-The Humvee's Kinder, Gentler Other | p. 137 |
(R)evolutions: Myths of the Hummer in The New York Times | p. 149 |
Homeland Security: The Hummer as Apocalyptic Vehicle | p. 165 |
The Hummer as Brute Image | p. 181 |
Myth as Vehicle | p. 191 |
Resisting Hummers through Visual Rhetoric: FUH2.com as Counterpublic | p. 193 |
Auto Militarization: Citizen Soldiers, the Hummer, and the War on Terror | p. 207 |
The Hummer: Race, Military, and Consumption Politics | p. 221 |
I Am the Humvee | p. 233 |
Bibliography | p. 237 |
Index | p. 249 |
Contributors | p. 259 |
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