Synopses & Reviews
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"Klein clearly follows in Mike Davis's wake, but develops a distinctive focus on the erasure of memory in and about the city." Times Literary Supplement
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"Klein is a fine stylist, an engaging historian - his account of the way noir shaped the city is strikingly fresh." New Scientist
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"Norman Klein is full of ideas, brilliantly and beautifully expressed." Journal of Americann History
Synopsis
Analysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.
About the Author
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.