Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles Volume 13

by Eric Avila

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520248112
• ISBN13: 9780520248113
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"