Concrete and dust : mapping the sexual terrains of Los Angeles / Jeanine M. Minge and Amber Lynn Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mingé, Jeanine, author.

Contributor:

Zimmerman, Amber Lynn.

Series:

Innovative ethnographies.

Innovative ethnographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in popular culture--California--Los Angeles--History.

Sex in popular culture.

Sex--California--Los Angeles--History.

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness. The cultural turn in ethnography has expanded the scope of ethnographic research methods, which now include innovative techniques that recognize and value sensuous scholarship (ethnographic works that incorporate visual, aural, and sensory texts). Hollywood has often been a focus in critical cultural theory; absent

Contents:

List of images

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Los Angeles river

Introduction: Los Angeles River, revisited

Burbank

Burbank, revisited

Chatsworth

Chatsworth, revisited

Hollywood Hills

Hollywood Hills, revisited

West Hollywood

West Hollywood, revisited

Topanga

Topanga, revisited

Conclusion: here

Notes

Works cited

Index

Images.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-07942-6

1-283-89433-5

1-136-15992-4

9780203079423

OCLC:

823389742