About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780520248113ISBN:0520248112
Description: Light edge creasing, but spine is not creased, no marks to text; very clean copy. 308 pp. White flight from inner LA from 1940 through the 1970's and the impact of that cultural change in venus such as Hollywood films, freeways, Disneyland and Dodger Stadium. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 4-1-06
ISBN-13:9780520248113ISBN:0520248112
Description: FINE. Superb, crisp, clean, unread paperback with very light shelfwear to the covers and publisher's mark to one edge-GREAT! 0.62 lbs. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780520248113ISBN:0520248112
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Examines cultural changes in the American city from 1940 to 1970. Cover shows minor wear from shelf use and does not lie flat. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 308 p. Contains: Illustrations. American Crossroads (Paperback), 13. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780520248113ISBN:0520248112
Description: "In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political... read more
Description: Good. 0520241215 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: Good. 0520241215 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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