Hard-boiled Hollywood : crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles / Jon Lewis.
2017
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Author
Lewis, Jon, 1955- author.
Title
Hard-boiled Hollywood : crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles / Jon Lewis.
Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description
1 online resource (xii, 233 pages)
Formatted Contents Note
The real estate of crime : the Black Dahlia dumped by the side of the road
Mobsters and movie stars : crime, punishment, and Hollywood celebrity
Hollywood confidential : crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles
Hollywood's last lonely places : the sad and short stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe.
Mobsters and movie stars : crime, punishment, and Hollywood celebrity
Hollywood confidential : crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles
Hollywood's last lonely places : the sad and short stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe.
Summary
"The history of Hollywood's postwar transition is framed by two spectacular dead bodies: Elizabeth Short, AKA the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947 and Marilyn Monroe, the studio era's last real movie star, discovered dead at her home in August 1962. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's awkward adolescence during which 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, whose reality was anything but glamorous"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 27, 2017).
Location
WWW
Available in Other Form
Print version: Lewis, Jon, 1955- Hard-boiled Hollywood. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Language
English
ISBN
9780520959910 (electronic book)
0520959914 (electronic book)
9780520284319 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0520959914 (electronic book)
9780520284319 (hardcover alkaline paper)
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