A cult classic that explores the concept of “California”, now back in print!

Cultural Studies

Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, milk-carton images of missing children, teenage slang, and surf music, Laurence A. Rickels offers a dizzying psychohistory of the twentieth century as crystallized in the symbolic configuration called California and considered in relation to German modernism, national socialism, and Freudian psychoanalysis.

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Product details

ISBN
9780816638789
Published
2001-05-15
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Height
222 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
20 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
384

Biographical note

Laurence A. Rickels is professor of German literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Vampire Lectures (1999) and the editor of Acting Out in Groups (1999), both published by the University of Minnesota Press.