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Klein, Norman M

 
9781859841754: The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1859841759 ISBN 13 : 9781859841754
Editeur : Verso Books, 1997

Synopsis

Los Angeles is a city which has long thrived on the continual re-creation of own myth. In this highly original work, Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in the city. Using a distinctive mixture of fact and fiction, Klein takes us on an "anti-tour" of downtown LA. He investigates the life for Vietnamese immigrants in the City of Dreams, playfully imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and looks at the way information technology has recreated the city, turning cyberspace into the last suburb. We observe the close up demolition of neighbourhoods by urban planners, TV's misrepresentation of the Rodney King uprising in1992, the effect on public consciousness of earthquakes, fires and racial panic, and the way in which crime novels make LA slums seem like abandoned cities in the Central American jungle.

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À propos de l'auteur

Norman M. Klein is a critic and historian of mass culture, editor of Fragile Moments: A History of Media-Induced Experience, and author of Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon from Verso. He teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1859841759
ISBN 13 
9781859841754
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
330
Coordonnées du fabricant
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