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Two spectacular dead bodies-Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, and Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her home in August 1962-bookend this new history of Hollywood's postwar transition.

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"Jon Lewis's range as a film scholar is vast... He leaves us with the conviction that the movie business is even more complicated and dangerous than we ever suspected, but never without great plots." National Post

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Real Estate of Crime: The Black Dahlia Dumped by the Side of the Road
2. Mobsters and Movie Stars: Crime, Punishment, and Hollywood Celebrity
3. Hollywood Confi dential: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
4. Hollywood’s Last Lonely Places: The Sad, Short Stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe

Notes
Index

HardBoiled Hollywood

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/04/2017
      ISBN13: 9780520284326, 978-0520284326
      ISBN10: 0520284321
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      Film history, theory or criticism Crime and criminology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Two spectacular dead bodies-Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, and Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her home in August 1962-bookend this new history of Hollywood's postwar transition.

      Trade Review
      "Jon Lewis's range as a film scholar is vast... He leaves us with the conviction that the movie business is even more complicated and dangerous than we ever suspected, but never without great plots." National Post

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction

      1. The Real Estate of Crime: The Black Dahlia Dumped by the Side of the Road
      2. Mobsters and Movie Stars: Crime, Punishment, and Hollywood Celebrity
      3. Hollywood Confi dential: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
      4. Hollywood’s Last Lonely Places: The Sad, Short Stories of Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe

      Notes
      Index

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