The History of Forgetting by Norman M Klein

The History of Forgetting by Norman M Klein

Los Angeles is a city which has long thrived on the continual re-creation of own myth. In this highly original work, Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in the city. Using a distinctive mixture of fact and fiction, Klein takes us on an "anti-tour" of downtown LA. He investigates the life for Vietnamese immigrants in the City of Dreams, playfully imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and looks at the way information technology has recreated the city, turning cyberspace into the last suburb. We observe the close up demolition of neighbourhoods by urban planners, TV's misrepresentation of the Rodney King uprising in1992, the effect on public consciousness of earthquakes, fires and racial panic, and the way in which crime novels make LA slums seem like abandoned cities in the Central American jungle.

Norman Klein is full of ideas, brilliantly and beautifully expressed* Journal of American History *

Norman M. Klein is a critic and historian of mass culture, editor of Fragile Moments: A History of Media-Induced Experience, and author of Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon from Verso. He teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9781859841754
ISBN 10	1859841759
Titre	The History of Forgetting
Auteur	Norman M Klein
Série	Haymarket
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Verso Books
Année de publication	1997-06-17
Nombre de pages	330
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