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• catalog abstract "Los Angeles is the labyrinth at the end of the American Dream, a city often celebrated, often condemned--rarely understood. In this fascinating and unusual collection David Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best debunk the myths, define the truths, and decipher the strange iconography of this "bronzed paradise" of fourteen million inhabitants. Here are reports and reflections on: the new Latin-American and Asian populations of South Central and the East Side and the old establishment in the West Side's hidden hilltop enclaves; Downtown with its heavily mortgaged office towers held by Canadian and Japanese landlords; the shuttered factories, thriving sweatshops, and gerrymandered "rotten boroughs" of post-industrial L.A.; architecture from Irving Gill to Frank O. Gehry; avatars and messiahs from Krishnamurti to L. Ron Hubbard; rituals of power and abjection in Movieland; and yoga and lust in Beverly Hills. Los Angeles Times and Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn; Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz; L.A. Weekly writers Lynell George and Ruben Martinez; novelists Carolyn See, Eve Babitz, and David Thomson; architectural historian Thomas S. Hines; and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Jeremy Larner are among those who investigate the mysteries of the city which, as Cockburn writes, is "the only megalopolis of the First World growing at a rate comparable to those supercities--Sao Paulo, Cairo, and Canton--of the Third World."".
• catalog contributor b3429785.
• catalog coverage "Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilization.".
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-318).".
• catalog description "Los Angeles is the labyrinth at the end of the American Dream, a city often celebrated, often condemned--rarely understood. In this fascinating and unusual collection David Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best debunk the myths, define the truths, and decipher the strange iconography of this "bronzed paradise" of fourteen million inhabitants. Here are reports and reflections on: the new Latin-American and Asian populations of South Central and the East Side and the old establishment in the West Side's hidden hilltop enclaves; Downtown with its heavily mortgaged office towers held by Canadian and Japanese landlords; the shuttered factories, thriving sweatshops, and gerrymandered "rotten boroughs" of post-industrial L.A.; architecture from Irving Gill to Frank O. Gehry; avatars and messiahs from Krishnamurti to L. Ron Hubbard; rituals of power and abjection in Movieland; and yoga and lust in Beverly Hills. Los Angeles Times and Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn; Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz; L.A. Weekly writers Lynell George and Ruben Martinez; novelists Carolyn See, Eve Babitz, and David Thomson; architectural historian Thomas S. Hines; and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Jeremy Larner are among those who investigate the mysteries of the city which, as Cockburn writes, is "the only megalopolis of the First World growing at a rate comparable to those supercities--Sao Paulo, Cairo, and Canton--of the Third World."".
• catalog description "On the rim of the Pacific century / Alexander Cockburn -- Chinatown, revisited? : the "internationalization" of downtown Los Angeles / Mike Davis -- The empty quarter / Mike Davis -- Melting / Carolyn See -- Bodies and souls / Eve Babitz -- City of specters / Lynell George -- The possessed / David Reid -- La Placita / Rubén Martínez -- Machines in the garden : notes toward a history of modern Los Angeles architecture, 1900-1990 / Thomas S. Hines -- Uneasy street / David Thomson -- Rack's rules : the mechanics of morals in movieland / Jeremy Larner.".
• catalog extent "xxvii, 356 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Sex, death, and God in L.A.".
• catalog identifier "0394573218".
• catalog isFormatOf "Sex, death, and God in L.A.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
• catalog relation "Sex, death, and God in L.A.".
• catalog spatial "Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilization.".
• catalog subject "979.4/94 20".
• catalog subject "F869.L85 S48 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "On the rim of the Pacific century / Alexander Cockburn -- Chinatown, revisited? : the "internationalization" of downtown Los Angeles / Mike Davis -- The empty quarter / Mike Davis -- Melting / Carolyn See -- Bodies and souls / Eve Babitz -- City of specters / Lynell George -- The possessed / David Reid -- La Placita / Rubén Martínez -- Machines in the garden : notes toward a history of modern Los Angeles architecture, 1900-1990 / Thomas S. Hines -- Uneasy street / David Thomson -- Rack's rules : the mechanics of morals in movieland / Jeremy Larner.".
• catalog title "Sex, death, and God in Los Angeles : views of a labyrinth / edited and with an introduction by David Reid.".
• catalog type "text".