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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. By Eric Avila. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xx, 308 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-52024121-5.)
Eric Avila brings together concepts from urban studies, popular culture studies, and criti cal whiteness studies in a compelling analysis of the new cultural order that emerged in postwar southern California. He examines film noir, science fiction, Disneyland, Dodger Stadium, and freeways to show how these cinematic narratives and built environments reflected and shaped the identities of white Americans who abandoned cities for a different life in the suburbs. . . .
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