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Dude, Where’s My Car? Car Culture Examined in The Cars That Ate Paris

By Finn Odum September 8, 2023 September 7, 2023 Peter Weir Series

A man is attacked by a grey-black car (oh no!) and has some silver mechanical thin on his head. Gang, I'm sorry...I don't know what that thing is.

|Matthew Lambert| There’s a quintessential moment of madness in the 1974 low-budget horror film The Cars That Ate Paris that is seared into my brain. It’s Charlie (played by the ultimate Australian character actor Bruce Spence) standing outside his fortress of wrecked cars, blood… Continue reading

The Cars That Ate Paris and the Bone-Shaking Consequences of the Past

By Finn Odum September 8, 2023 September 8, 2023 Peter Weir Series

The mayor of Paris consoles Waldo at the side of a bloody car crash.

|Chris Ryba-Tures| “There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another.” Walter Benjamin Continue reading

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Dude, Where’s My Car? Car Culture Examined in The Cars That Ate Paris

The Cars That Ate Paris and the Bone-Shaking Consequences of the Past

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