Hard-Boiled Hollywood (eBook)

Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles

Jon Lewis (Autor)

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2017
248 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95991-0 (ISBN)

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The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy faade, exposing the citys ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, the other found dead in her home in August 1962, bookend this new history of Hollywood. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's awkward adolescence when the company town's many competing subculturescelebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, industry wannabes, and desperate transientscame 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, where reality was anything but glamorous.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Real Estate of Crime: The Black Dahlia Dumped by the Side of the Road
2. Mobsters and Movie Stars: Crime, Punishment, and Hollywood Celebrity
3. Hollywood Confi dential: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
4. Hollywood’s Last Lonely Places: The Sad, Short Stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe

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Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 20th Century American History • 20th century film industry • American actress • Black Dahlia • blonde bombshell • Celebrity • collapse of the studio system • Corruption • Crime • cultural intrigue • Dead bodies • Elizabeth Short • Film • film industry • found murdered • graphic nature of the crime • History of Hollywood • Hollywood • Los Angeles • Marilyn Monroe • mobsters • Movies • Murder • mutilated and bisected at the waist • national attention • popular culture icon • popular sex symbol • postwar los angeles • unsolved murder
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95991-4 / 0520959914
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95991-0 / 9780520959910