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245 10 a| Hard-boiled Hollywoodh| [electronic resource] :b| crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles /c| Jon Lewis.;

260 a| Oakland, California :b| University of California Press,c| [2017];

300 a| 1 online resource.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| The real estate of crime : the Black Dahlia dumped by the side of the road -- Mobsters and movie stars : crime, punishment, and Hollywood celebrity -- Hollywood confidential : crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles -- Hollywood's last lonely places : the sad and short stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "The history of Hollywood's postwar transition is framed by two spectacular dead bodies: Elizabeth Short, AKA the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947 and Marilyn Monroe, the studio era's last real movie star, discovered dead at her home in August 1962. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's awkward adolescence during which 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, whose reality was anything but glamorous"--Provided by publisher.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

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Hard-boiled Hollywood crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles / Jon Lewis.

Author/creator	Lewis, Jon, 1955-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description	1 online resource.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from JSTOR eBooks
Subjects	Crime--California. --Los Angeles. --History. --20th century.

Contents	The real estate of crime : the Black Dahlia dumped by the side of the road -- Mobsters and movie stars : crime, punishment, and Hollywood celebrity -- Hollywood confidential : crime and punishment in postwar Los Angeles -- Hollywood's last lonely places : the sad and short stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe.
Abstract	"The history of Hollywood's postwar transition is framed by two spectacular dead bodies: Elizabeth Short, AKA the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947 and Marilyn Monroe, the studio era's last real movie star, discovered dead at her home in August 1962. Short and Monroe are just two of the many left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's awkward adolescence during which 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, whose reality was anything but glamorous"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Source of description	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Issued in other form	Print version: Lewis, Jon, 1955- author. Hard-boiled Hollywood Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520284319
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2016046542
ISBN	9780520959910 (ebk.)

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