"The Footprint of the Monster": California and the American Nightmare

Los Angeles is often depicted as a utopia—a glamorous, untroubled society on a geographical paradise. This image of perfection was crafted in conjunction with the city itself, with the metropolitan development in the 1930s. Los Angeles has been advertised as paradise and, in the 1930s, as a city una...

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Main Author: Halberg, Lauren
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2014
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/472
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1479&context=scripps_theses