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- catalog abstract ""The promotional literature that lured sun-starved Midwesterners to Southern California in the 1880s hyped the region as the New Eden. But the novelists who created our vision of Los Angeles soon began to see it as Dystopia rather than Utopia, a corrupt, unreal city foreshadowing and reflecting all that is wrong with America. David Fine traces the history of the place through the work of the authors who have defined it in our imaginations."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11990128.
- catalog coverage "Los Angeles (Calif.) In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Los Angeles (Calif.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The promotional literature that lured sun-starved Midwesterners to Southern California in the 1880s hyped the region as the New Eden. But the novelists who created our vision of Los Angeles soon began to see it as Dystopia rather than Utopia, a corrupt, unreal city foreshadowing and reflecting all that is wrong with America. David Fine traces the history of the place through the work of the authors who have defined it in our imaginations."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-[272]) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface and acknowledgments. -- Starting points: the place and the writers. -- Boosters and boasters: the making and unmaking of a myth. -- The twenties and beyond: oil, movies, and salvation. -- View from the back room: the hard-boiled thirties. -- Down these mean streets: the tough-guy detective story. -- Sargasso of the imagination: the Hollywood novel. -- Down and out in Los Angeles: from Bunker Hill to the Barrio. -- Black dahlias and zoot suits: the recovery of history. -- Endings and beginnings: surviving Apocalypse.".
- catalog extent "xi, 293 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Imagining Los Angeles.".
- catalog identifier "0826322077 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0826322085 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Imagining Los Angeles.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,".
- catalog relation "Imagining Los Angeles.".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles.".
- catalog spatial "Los Angeles (Calif.) In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Los Angeles (Calif.) Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "813.009/3279494 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction California Los Angeles History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns in literature.".
- catalog subject "City and town life in literature.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American Homes and haunts California Los Angeles.".
- catalog subject "PS374.L57 F56 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface and acknowledgments. -- Starting points: the place and the writers. -- Boosters and boasters: the making and unmaking of a myth. -- The twenties and beyond: oil, movies, and salvation. -- View from the back room: the hard-boiled thirties. -- Down these mean streets: the tough-guy detective story. -- Sargasso of the imagination: the Hollywood novel. -- Down and out in Los Angeles: from Bunker Hill to the Barrio. -- Black dahlias and zoot suits: the recovery of history. -- Endings and beginnings: surviving Apocalypse.".
- catalog title "Imagining Los Angeles : a city in fiction / David Fine.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".