Main entry:

Avila, Eric, 1968-

Title & Author:

Popular culture in the age of white flight : fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles / Eric Avila.

Publication:

Description:

xx, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

American crossroads ; 13

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index.
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 -- The 1960s and beyond.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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Table of contents

ISBN:

0520241215 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780520241213 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780520248113 (pbk.)
0520248112 (pbk.)

Subject:

Popular culture California Los Angeles History 20th century.
Public spaces California Los Angeles History 20th century.
White people Race identity California Los Angeles.
Suburban life California Los Angeles History 20th century.
Suburban life in popular culture California Los Angeles History 20th century.
Migration, Internal History 20th century.
African Americans California Los Angeles Social conditions 20th century.
City and town life California Los Angeles History 20th century.
Culture populaire Californie Los Angeles Histoire 20e siècle.
Espaces publics Californie Los Angeles Histoire 20e siècle.
Personnes blanches Identité ethnique Californie Los Angeles.
Vie de la banlieue Californie Los Angeles Histoire 20e siècle.
Vie de la banlieue dans la culture populaire Californie Los Angeles Histoire 20e siècle.
Migration intérieure Californie Los Angeles, Région de Histoire 20e siècle.
Noirs américains Californie Los Angeles Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Vie urbaine Californie Los Angeles Histoire 20e siècle.
Migration intérieure Histoire 20e siècle.
African Americans Social conditions
City and town life
Civilization
Migration, Internal
Popular culture
Public spaces
Race relations
Social conditions
Suburban life
White people Race identity
Suburban life in popular culture
Kultur
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Identiteit.
Populaire cultuur.
Stedelijke omgeving.
Suburbanisatie.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
culture populaire milieu urbain race Los Angeles (Etats-Unis) 20e s. (milieu)
Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilization 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilisation 20e siècle.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Relations raciales.
California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Los Angeles <Calif.>

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

American crossroads ; 13.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263818
Call No.: BIB 195115
Status: Available