| Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero! Contributor(s): Dawson, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609495462 ISBN-13: 9781609495466 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 979.494 |
| LCCN: 2012024384 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (0.75 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life mean streets that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writer s exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going on behind the scenes, run by the city s power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos, writer Jim Dawson enlarges the record of L.A. history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place." |
Contributor Bio(s): Dawson, Jim: - Jim Dawson is a graduate of West Virginia University and a longtime resident of Hollywood. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Los Angeles s Angels Flight (2008), as well as a short documentary called Los Angeles s Bunker Hill (2011) on the Criterion Collection s Blu-ray/DVD reissue of the 1955 film noir classic Kiss Me Deadly. |