Popular culture in the age of white flight
fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles
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Author
Publication
2004 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
77,000 words, Guess
Page Count
308 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3678401M
- ISBN-100520241215
- OCLC Control Number56732948
- OCLC Control Number52979082
- OCLC Control Numberpopularcultureag00avil_329
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003019072
- Goodreads1398454
- LibraryThing73760
Classifications
- DDC979.4/94
- LCCF869.L85 A95 2004
Description
"Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium, Disneyland, and L.A.'s renowned freeways. These institutions not only mirrored this new culture of suburban whiteness and helped to shape it, but also, as Avila argues, reveal the profound relationship between the increasingly fragmented urban landscape of Los Angeles and the rise of a new political outlook that rejected the tenets of New Deal liberalism and anticipated the emergence of the New Right."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- American crossroads ;
Other Editions
- Popular culture in the age of white flight: fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles
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