Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight : Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780520248113 | 0520248112
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of California Pr
Pub. Date: 3/1/2006
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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... MORE
| List of Illustrations | xi | ||
| Preface | xiii | ||
| Acknowledgments | xvii | ||
| 1. Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Suburbs: Race, Space, and the New "New Mass Culture" of Postwar America | 1 | (19) | |
| 2. The Nation's "White Spot": Racializing Postwar Los An... MORE | 20 | (45) | |
| 3. The Spectacle of Urban Blight: Hollywood's Rendition of a Black Los Angeles | 65 | (41) | |
| 4. "A Rage for Order": Disneyland and the Suburban Ideal | 106 | (39) | |
| 5. Suburbanizing the City Center: The Dodgers Move West | 145 | (40) | |
| 6. The Sutured City: Tales of Progress and Disaster in the Freeway Metropolis | 185 | (39) | |
| Epilogue. The 1960's and Beyond | 224 | (19) | |
| Notes | 243 | (38) | |
| Selected Bibliography | 281 | (18) | |
| Index | 299 |
Eric Avila is Associate Professor of Chicano Studies and History at the University of California, Los Angeles
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