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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Kaituhi matua:	Devienne, Elsa
Hōputu:	Artigo
Reo:	Inglês
I whakaputaina:	European Association for American Studies 2019
Ngā marau:	California; beach; bodies; Muscle Beach; Los Angeles; spectacle; surfing; bodybuilding; tanning; health; fitness; leisure; physique
Urunga tuihono:	https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.15480 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/fmrx https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15480
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