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Norman M. Klein's »Bleeding Through

Layers of Los Angeles«: An Updated Edition 20 Years Later

Norman M. Klein Jens Martin Gurr

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English
Transcript Verlag
20 April 2023
Series: Urban Studies
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, this important text is reissued 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: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory?, one being the kernel of the novella, the other imagining Walter Benjamin in L.A. Finally, the book contains links to two films featuring much of the multimedia material contained in the first edition.

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Imprint:   Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 23mm,  Width: 15mm,  Spine: 1mm
Weight:   284g
ISBN:   9783837665598
ISBN 10:   3837665593
Series:   Urban Studies
Pages:   198
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jens Martin Gurr, born in 1974, is a professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is co-founder and speaker of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the Universit�tsallianz Ruhr (KoMet). His research areas include literary urban studies, theories and methods of urban and metropolitan research, model theory, literature and climate change as well as British literature of the 17th to the 21st centuries and contemporary US fiction.

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