Hard-Boiled Hollywood : Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles / Jon Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Jon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's glitzy façade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly of corruption, 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. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's awkward adolescence when 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, where reality was anything but glamorous.";

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Real Estate of Crime: The Black Dahlia Dumped by the Side of the Road

2. Mobsters and Movie Stars: Crime, Punishment, and Hollywood Celebrity

3. Hollywood Confidential: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles

4. Hollywood's Last Lonely Places: The Sad, Short Stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520959910

0520959914

OCLC:

960448806