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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Haymarket seriesPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 330 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1859848206
  • 9781859848203
  • 1859841759
  • 9781859841754
Uniform titles:
  • Forgetting
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979.494
LOC classification:
  • F869.L857 K58 1997
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.
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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.

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