Popular culture in the age of white flight
Subtitle: fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles
By: Eric Avila.
Series: American crossroads ;; 13
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.; Public spaces -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.; Whites -- 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 -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; City and town life -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and index.