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Los Angeles: The greatest experiment of modernity (California).
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Los Angeles: The greatest experiment of modernity (California)./
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Zakim, Tom.
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-07, Section: A, page: 2739.
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Dissertation Abstracts International65-07A.
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History, United States. -
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Los Angeles: The greatest experiment of modernity (California).
Zakim, Tom.
Los Angeles: The greatest experiment of modernity (California).
- 402 p.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-07, Section: A, page: 2739.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2004.
This dissertation explores popular forms of visual culture in Los Angeles between 1880 and 1940 to argue that the city's physical form took shape through a cultural process of aesthetic negotiation among Los Angeles' diverse population. The great "suburban metropolis," did not necessarily arise from a middle-class Anglo-American pastoral ideal. Nor is the city's sprawling landscape the result of a cunning business community's effort to package and sell Los Angeles into a universal image of modern living. Contrary to both popular and academic belief, Los Angeles with its low-lying terrain of bungalows, palm trees, and home gardens exemplifies the historical significance of twentieth-century urbanism: that is the growth of suburbanization in the United States may have looked like an attempt to escape the grasp of urbanization and all of its modern associations but was in fact an expression of modern culture. Beneath the facade of Los Angeles' popular imagery lies a complex story that highlights Angelenos' struggles to define a modern life of mass consumption, heightened urbanization, and identity politics. In this study, I examine the pastoral imagery of boosters, the pictures of early postcards, the fashion of home gardening, and the popularity of bungalows, to demonstrate how the maturation of Los Angeles highlighted some key themes of modern urban culture: the creation of the modern self; the conceptual production of new types of space; the re-discovery of nature in the city; and the construction of fantasy architecture for the re-discovery of nature in the city; and the construction of fantasy architecture for the everyday. In examining the role of visual culture in Los Angeles, this study offers a new perspective on both Los Angeles and the history of twentieth-century American urbanity. Rather than continually see Los Angeles as the exception to modern urban development, I argue that the city's environs emanate from the same economic, social, cultural condition that built the skyscraper city. The building of Los Angeles exemplified the end of the frontier tradition and its romantic notions about frontier living. In its place, the new spaces of urbanity and the new attitudes about the everyday generated a society defined more by the rise of commodification and visual spectacle than the old American values of rugged frontier.
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