This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial
exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through
the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban
history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective
fiction, film noir and neo noir. Dark portrayals of the city are
analyzed in Raymond Chandler's crime fiction through to key films
like Double Indemnity (1944) and The End of Violence (1997). By
employing these fictional elements as the basis for historicising
the city's unrivalled urban form, the analysis demonstrates an
innovative approach to urban historiography. Revealing some of the
earliest tendencies of postmodern expression in Hollywood cinema,
this book will be of great relevance to students and researchers
working in the fields of film, literature, cultural and urban
studies. It will also be of interest to scholars researching
histories of Los Angeles and the American noir imagination.
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