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Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles Hardcover - 2017
by Jon Lewis
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"This book is a fascinating on-location excursion down the mean streets of a metastasizing metropolis and the shuttered backlots of a sputtering studio system, an anthropological thick description of the gangsters, stars, hustlers, hookers, and hangers-on in the lonely place that is Hollywood."--Thomas Doherty, Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University
"Where previously Lewis focused most on top-level power plays and money grabs, he now trenchantly probes Hollywood's underworlds: grifters, gossip-mongers, and gangsters, loners and losers--bodies 'left by the side of the road.' A fascinating rewriting of Hollywood history, especially around production culture, including cultures of failure and despair." --Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York UniversityDetails
- Title Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
- Author Jon Lewis
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2017-04-19
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520284319 / 0520284313
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.69 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Southern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Library of Congress subjects Crime - California - Los Angeles - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016045492
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.979
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