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Hard-Boiled Hollywood - Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles (Hardcover)
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Hard-Boiled Hollywood - Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles (Hardcover)
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Total price: R2,711
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The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of
Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped
open Hollywood's glitzy facade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly
of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead
bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947,
the other found dead in her home in August 1962, bookend this new
history of Hollywood. Short and Monroe are just two of the many
left for dead after the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood's
awkward adolescence when 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, where reality was anything but
glamorous."
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