Golden State, Golden Youth The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966

Name: Golden State, Golden Youth The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966
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ISBN: 9780807853627

ISBN-10: 0807853623

ISBN-13: 9780807853627

Edition: 2002

Authors: Kirse Granat May

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Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the post-World War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Nowhere was this more evident than in the explosion of California youth images in popular culture. Disneyland, television shows such asThe Mickey Mouse Club,Gidgetand other beach movies, the music of the Beach Boys--all these broadcast nationwide a lifestyle of carefree, wholesome fun supposedly enjoyed by white, middle-class, suburban young people in California. Tracing the rise of the California teen as a national icon, Kirse May shows how idealized images of a…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Suburban Eden



California Disneying



Come Along and Sing Our Song



Gidget Without a Cause



Wish They All Could Be California



Beach Blanket California



Berkeley and Watts



Reagan's Conservative Wave



Endless Summer


Notes


Bibliography


Index