Hard-boiled Hollywood : crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles / Jon Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Jon, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Crime.

History.

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"The history of Hollywood's postwar transition is framed by two spectacular dead bodies: Elizabeth Short, AKA the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947 and Marilyn Monroe, the studio era's last real movie star, discovered dead at her home in August 1962. 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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The real estate of crime : the Black Dahlia dumped by the side of the road

Mobsters and movie stars : crime, punishment, and Hollywood celebrity

Hollywood confidential : crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles

Hollywood's last lonely places : the sad and short stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lewis, Jon, 1955- author. Hard-boiled Hollywood.

ISBN:

9780520284319

0520284313

9780520284326

0520284321

OCLC:

960166732