TY - BOOK AU - Klein,Norman M. TI - The history of forgetting: Los Angeles and the erasure of memory T2 - The haymarket series SN - 1859848206 AV - F869.L857 K58 1997 U1 - 979.494 PY - 1997///] CY - London, New York PB - Verso KW - Memory KW - Los Angeles (Calif.) KW - History KW - Civilization KW - 20th century KW - Social conditions N1 - 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 ER -