Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles - Paperback
by Jon Lewis
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jon LewisTheme:Chronological Period/1940's, Chronological Period/1950's, Chronological Period/1960's, Chronological Period/20th Century, Cultural Region/Southern California, Cultural Region/West Coast, Cultural Region/Western U.S., Geographic Orientation/California, Locality/Los Angeles-Long Beach, CAPublish date:4/19/2017Pages:248
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520284326ISBN-10:0520284321UPC:9780520284326Book Category:History, Performing Arts, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, Film, MurderBook Topic:State & Local, History & Criticism, Serial KillersSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.368Product ID:SCNZ2Z4DWT
The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy façade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, the other found dead in her home in August 1962, bookend this new history of Hollywood. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's awkward adolescence when the company town's many competing subcultures--celebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, industry wannabes, and desperate transients--came into frequent contact and conflict. Hard-Boiled Hollywood focuses on the lives lost at the crossroads between a dreamed-of Los Angeles and the real thing after the Second World War, where reality was anything but glamorous."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520284326ISBN-10:0520284321UPC:9780520284326Book Category:History, Performing Arts, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, Film, MurderBook Topic:State & Local, History & Criticism, Serial KillersSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.368Product ID:SCNZ2Z4DWT
Jon Lewis is the Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and University Honors College Eminent Professor at Oregon State University. He has published eleven books, including Whom God Wishes to Destroy . . .: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood and Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, is past editor of Cinema Journal, and served on the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Publisher: University of California Press
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