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The comfort lies in all the things you can do: The Australian drive-in - Cinema of distraction
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The comfort lies in all the things you can do: The Australian drive-in - Cinema of distraction

Ben Goldsmith
Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.33(1), pp.153-164
1999
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1999.3301_153.xView
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Abstract

The drive-in is a uniquely American invention. With its need for a great deal of land, a culture dominated by the automobile, and an affluent population, the United States is one of the few countries able to support a large, thriving ozoner industry. It is because of these specific needs that almost no other country adopted the drive-in, even though most things American are widely imitated in other lands. At best, most countries have had only a token drive-in or two, ranging up to a handful, at any one time. (Segrave 104).

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