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Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles

Jon Lewis

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Description:The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood s glitzy facade and exposed the ugly underbelly of a city teeming with corruption, back alley transactions, 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 s postwar transition. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood s awkward adolescence during which the company town s many competing subcultures celebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, industry wannabes, and desperate transients came 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, whose reality was anything but glamorous."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles. To get started finding Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood s glitzy facade and exposed the ugly underbelly of a city teeming with corruption, back alley transactions, 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 s postwar transition. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood s awkward adolescence during which the company town s many competing subcultures celebrities, moguls, mobsters, gossip mongers, industry wannabes, and desperate transients came 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, whose reality was anything but glamorous."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles. To get started finding Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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