Spectacular Bodies: Los Angeles Beach Cultures and the Making of the “California Look” (1900s-1960s)
This article explores the origins, whitewashing, and eventual fetishization of the “California look”—a body ideal centered on bronzed skin, bleached hair, and bulging muscles, which gained a prominent place within American visual imagery in the second half of the twentieth century. Rather than solel...
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European journal of American studies
2019
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |