Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles

Name: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9780520248113

ISBN-10: 0520248112

ISBN-13: 9780520248113

Edition: 2004

Authors: Eric Avila

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Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly 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 provocative 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 shape it, but also, as Avila argues, reveal the profound relationship between…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Suburbs: Race, Space, and the New "New Mass Culture" of Postwar America



The Nation's "White Spot": Racializing Postwar Los Angeles



The Spectacle of Urban Blight: Hollywood's Rendition of a Black Los Angeles



"A Rage for Order": Disneyland and the Suburban Ideal



Suburbanizing the City Center: The Dodgers Move West



The Sutured City: Tales of Progress and Disaster in the Freeway Metropolis


Epilogue. The 1960s and Beyond


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index