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Author Klein, Norman M., 1945-

Title The history of forgetting : Los Angeles and the erasure of memory / Norman M. Klein.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Verso, [1998]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F869.L857 K57 1998    Available  ---
Description 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series The Haymarket series.
Haymarket series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Histories of forgetting -- Part I. Building the social imaginary: 1885-1997: 1. Booster myths, urban erasure -- 2. L.A. noir and forgetting -- 3. Building Blade Runner -- 4. Movie locations: Unsprung ; Falling down ; City of lights -- 5. The panic: imagined fears after April 1992 -- 6. Two neighborhoods. -- Part II. Imaginary Vietnamese in Los Angeles: 7. Stories in an English I don't speak: a novel. -- Part III. Docufables: 8. Witnesses after the fact -- 9. Fictions: Asi es la vida ; The phoenix tree ; The unreliable narrator ; Noir as the ruins of the left. -- Part IV. Forgetting the screen: 10. The most photographed and least remembered city in the world -- 11. The imaginary LAPD. -- Part V. Conclusion: 12. Suburban noir and cyberspace. -- Appendix: Where is forgetting located? -- Afterward: Borges' father.
Subject Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Memory -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles.
Memory -- Social aspects.
California -- Los Angeles.
Memory.
ISBN 1859841759 paperback
1859848206