Norman M. Klein's »Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles« : An Updated Edition 20 Years Later / ed. by Jens Martin Gurr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gurr, Jens Martin, Contributor.

Gurr, Jens Martin, Editor.

Klein, Norman M, Contributor.

Klein, Norman M., Contributor.

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Funder.

Series:

Urban Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles.

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Gurr Jens Martin : Jens Martin Gurr, geb. 1974, ist Professor für britische und englischsprachige Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Er ist Mitbegründer und Sprecher des Kompetenzfeldes Metropolenforschung in der Universitätsallianz Ruhr (KoMet). Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören Literarische Stadtforschung, Theorien und Methoden der Stadt- und Metropolenforschung, Modelltheorie, Literatur und Klimawandel sowie die britische Literatur des 17. bis 21. Jahrhunderts und die zeitgenössische US-Literatur.

Summary:

In 2003, Norman M. Klein's docufable »Bleeding Through« raised questions of urban aesthetics and memory as part of the multimedia documentary »Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986.« Now, 20 years later, Jens Martin Gurr reissues this important text along with several essays addressing its central themes, such as the aesthetics and politics of urban memory, the development of Los Angeles since the 20th century, the role of urban imaginaries in US politics, or media evolution in the 21st century. The volume also features a long interview with Klein and two docufables from Klein's celebrated study »The History of Forgetting: The Erasure of Memory in Los Angeles«, one being the kernel of the novella, the other imagining Walter Benjamin in L.A.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

0. Introduction

Bleeding Through: Text and Contexts

1. Bleeding Through

2. Montage and Superposition: The Poetics and Politics of Urban Memory in Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986

3. Spaces Between: Travelling Through Bleeds, Apertures and Wormholes Inside the Database Novel

4. Los Angeles since the End of Molly's Story: 1986-2021

Bleeding Through: 'The Making of'

5. "The Unreliable Narrator"

6. "Noir as the Ruins of the Left"

7. "The Morgue: Fifty Ways to Kill a Man"

8. Absences, Scripted Spaces and the Urban Imaginary: Unlikely Models for the City in the Twenty-First Century

9. Interview with Norman M. Klein: Bleeding Through, Media Evolution, Walter Benjamin, and American Politics (May 27, 2022)

Sources

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)

ISBN:

3-8394-6559-1

OCLC:

1369662563