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CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, a new four-part series narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Linda Hunt, explores the dynamics of culture, community and identity in...
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Apr 11, 2006 · The California image of beaches, blondes, flaky surfers, and “California Dreamin’” doesn’t tell the whole story, or even most of it. In California, always expect the unexpected. Just when ...
Nov 27, 2023 · For most Californians (61%), the American Dream is harder to achieve in California than elsewhere in the US, and about six in ten Californians have held this view since 2020. At least half across all groups hold this pessimistic view, but differences do emerge.
The American Dream is the national ethos of the United States, that every person has the freedom and opportunity to succeed and attain a better life. [1] The phrase was popularized by James Truslow Adams during the Great Depression in 1931, [2] and has had different meanings over time.
Historian Kevin Starr in his seven-volume history of the state has explored in great depth the "California Dream"—the realization by ordinary Californians of the American Dream. California starting in the late 19th century promised the highest possible standard of life for the middle classes, and indeed for the skilled blue collar workers and ...
Apr 13, 2006 · Exploring the dynamics of culture, community, and identity in one of the world’s most diverse regions, the four-part series California and the American Dream reveals how the last 35 years of divergent social trends have changed the state’s Hollywood dreamscape image of the past.
California and the American Dream is a 4 episode series created for PBS out of a partnership between producers/directors Jed Riffe (California’s ‘Lost’ Tribes/Ripe for Change), Emiko Omori (Ripe for Change), Lyn Goldfarb (The New Los Angeles) and Paul Espinosa (The Price of Renewal).
