The history of forgetting : Los Angeles and the erasure of memory /
Klein, Norman M., 1945-
The history of forgetting : Los Angeles and the erasure of memory / Norman M. Klein. - 330 pages ; 24 cm. - The haymarket series. . - Haymarket series. .
Includes index.
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.
1859848206 9781859848203 1859841759 9781859841754
Memory.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Civilization--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions
F869.L857 / K58 1997
979.494
The history of forgetting : Los Angeles and the erasure of memory / Norman M. Klein. - 330 pages ; 24 cm. - The haymarket series. . - Haymarket series. .
Includes index.
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.
1859848206 9781859848203 1859841759 9781859841754
Memory.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Civilization--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions
F869.L857 / K58 1997
979.494