{"product_id":"l-a-chic-a-locational-history-of-los-angeles-fashion-9781783209347","title":"L.A. Chic: A Locational History of Los Angeles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles is undergoing a makeover. Leaving behind its image as all freeways and suburbs, sunshine and noir, it is reinventing itself for the twenty-first century as a walkable, pedestrian friendly, ecologically healthy and global urban hotspot of fashion and style,  while driving initiatives to rejuvenate its downtown core, public spaces and ethnic neighborhoods. By providing a locational history of Los Angeles fashion and style mythologies through the lens of institutions such as manufacturing, museums and designers and readings of contemporary film, literature and new media, \u003cem\u003eL.A. Chic\u003c\/em\u003e provides an in-depth analysis of the social changes, urban processes, desires and politics that inform how the good life is being re-imagined in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Throughout the book, Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner dig up submerged and marginalized elements of the city’s cultural history but also tap into the global circuits of urban affect that are being mobilized for promoting L.A. as an example for the global, multi-ethnic city of the future. Engagingly written, highly visual and featuring numerous photographs throughout, \u003cem\u003eL.A. Chic\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to any culturally inclined reader with an interest in Los Angeles, its cultural history and modern urban style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'L.A. Chic gives us an understanding of complex dynamics playing out in real time, remaining faithful to not only locations, but their trajectories. Los Angeles is more than just a place with microcultures or sets of institutions, processes and resources, but an agile location that rewards agility for those living and working there.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kenneth M. Kambara, Fashion, Style \u0026amp; Popular Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: L.A. Chic: Between Rags and Riches\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eUrban chic: The becoming of the new Los Angeles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1: Freeway vs Downtown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFrom suburban noir to downtown chic\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFrom the suburbs to loft living, or: Neo-noir in gentrification-land: \u003cem\u003eVeronica Mars – The Movie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNaomi Hirahara: \u003cem\u003eMurder on Bamboo Lane\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGrave on Grand Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe subversive need for speed: Fast family, smart L.A. and muscle\/cars in \u003cem\u003eFurious 7\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA gentler, softer, hipper Los Angeles for the twenty-first century?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2: Santée Alley vs Santa Fe: Latinidad between Ramonaland and Latino Grit\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFuego\u003c\/em\u003e: The new L.A. street style in Santée Alley\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eRamona\u003c\/em\u003e mythology\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLos Angeles and Santa Fe: A tale of two nostalgias\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFashioning \u003cem\u003elatinidad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: L.A.’s Surf Chic: From Drop-Out Culture to Silicon Beach\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBeaches, L.A. style\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eL.A. beaches become chic\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSurfer culture\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe original beachboys\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLet’s go surfing now: Californian lifestyle in the 1950s\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSurf globally, resist locally\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSilicon surfers\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReading the beaches\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4: Bling and the Realities of Compton and Calabasas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Bling Ring\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSurfaces and seriality\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFaciality\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eUmwelt – Calabasas\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe ins and outs of Compton\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCoda: GTA: City without angels\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5: L.A. Fashion in Museums\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFashion Institute of Design \u0026amp; Merchandising (FIDM)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOther fashion-related exhibitions in L.A.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6: Los Angelization ą la Tom Ford: From American Gigolo to American Apparel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Doing a Gucci”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eArmani goes to Hollywood\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Doing a Dov”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion: Learning from Los Angeles, the Josephine Baker of Cities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFilmography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042269102423,"sku":"9781783209347","price":33.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783209347.jpg?v=1750953705","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/l-a-chic-a-locational-history-of-los-angeles-fashion-9781783209347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}