TY - BOOK ID - 137839105 TI - Popular culture in the age of white flight : fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles PY - 2004 SN - 1282358472 9786612358470 0520939719 159734821X 9780520939714 9781597348218 1417544961 9781417544967 9780520248113 0520248112 6612358475 0520241215 9780520241213 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Popular culture KW - Public spaces KW - White people KW - Suburban life KW - Suburban life in popular culture KW - Migration, Internal KW - African Americans KW - City and town life KW - History KW - Race identity KW - Social conditions KW - Los Angeles (Calif.) KW - Civilization KW - Race relations. KW - 20th century. KW - art and architecture. KW - california history. KW - california. KW - conservative right. KW - cultural history. KW - cultural representation. KW - demographic studies. KW - disneyland. KW - film noir. KW - hollywood. KW - liberalism. KW - los angeles. KW - modern history. KW - new deal. KW - new right. KW - nonfiction. KW - popular culture. KW - postwar america. KW - regional history. KW - southern california. KW - suburban culture. KW - suburban landscape. KW - suburbs. KW - united states. KW - urban landscape. KW - us history. KW - white flight. KW - white identity. KW - world war ii. KW - wwii. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137839105 AB - 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 not only mirrored this new culture of suburban whiteness and helped 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. Avila examines disparate manifestations of popular culture in architecture, art, music, and more to illustrate the unfolding urban dynamics of postwar Los Angeles. He also synthesizes important currents of new research in urban history, cultural studies, and critical race theory, weaving a textured narrative about the interplay of space, cultural representation, and identity amid the westward shift of capital and culture in postwar America. ER -