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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456421203321

Autore

May Kirse Granat

Titolo

Golden state, golden youth [[electronic resource] ] : the California image in popular culture, 1955-1966 / / by Kirse Granat May

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8078-9896-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

306.09794

979.4/053

979.4053

Soggetti

Popular culture - California - History - 20th century

Mass media - Social aspects - California - History - 20th century

Youth - California - Social life and customs - 20th century

Baby boom generation - California - History

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Mass media - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Mass media and youth - United States - History - 20th century

Baby boom generation - United States - History

Electronic books.

California Civilization 20th century

California Social life and customs 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Suburban Eden; 2. California Disneying; 3. Come Along and Sing Our Song; 4. Gidget Without a Cause; 5. Wish They All Could Be California; 6. Beach Blanket California; 7. Berkeley and Watts; 8. Reagan's Conservative Wave; 9. Endless Summer; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the post-World War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950's and 1960's. Nowhere was this more evident than in the explosion of California youth images in popular culture.



Disneyland, television shows such as The Mickey Mouse Club, Gidget and other beach movies, the music of the Beach Boys--all these broadcast nationwide a lifestyle of carefree, wholesome fun supposedly enjoyed by white, middle-class, suburban young people in California