Main entry:

Klein, Norman M., 1945-

Title & Author:

The history of forgetting : Los Angeles and the erasure of memory / Norman M. Klein.

Edition:

New updated ed.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2008.

Description:

vii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 1998. With new pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to the 2008 edition -- Introduction: Histories of forgetting -- Building the social imaginary: 1885-1997. -- Booster myths, urban erasure -- L.A. noir and forgetting -- Building Blade Runner -- Movie locations: Unsprung ; Falling down ; City of lights -- The panic: imagined fears after April 1992 -- Two neighborhoods -- Imaginary Vietnamese in Los Angeles. -- Introduction -- Stories in an English I don't speak: a novel -- Docufables. -- Witnesses after the fact -- Fictions: Asi es la vida ; The phoenix tree ; The unreliable narrator ; Noir as the ruins of the Left -- Forgetting on the screen. -- The most photographed and least remembered city of the world -- The imaginary LAPD -- Conclusion. -- Suburban noir and cyberspace -- Where is forgetting located? -- Borges' father -- the future of forgetting until 2050.

Summary:

Los Angeles is a city which has long thrived on the continual re-creation of own myth. In this extraordinary and original work, Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in LA. Using a provocative mixture of fact and fiction, the book takes us on an "anti-tour" of downtown LA, examines life for Vietnamese immigrants in the City of Dreams, imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and finally looks at the way information technology has recreated the city, turning cyberspace into the last suburb. In this new edition, Norman Klein examines new models for erasure in LA. He explores the evolution of the Latino majority, how the Pacific economy is changing the structure of urban life, the impact of collapsing infrastructure in the city, and the restructuring of those very districts that had been "forgotten."

ISBN:

9781844672417
1844672417
9781844672424
1844672425

Subject:

Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilization 20th century.
Memory Social aspects California Los Angeles.
Civilization.
Memory Social aspects.
Social conditions
Neighborhoods California Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) History 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions 20th century.
California Los Angeles.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258420
Call No.: F869.L857 K5 2008
Status: Available