In 2003, Norman M. Klein's docufable »Bleeding Through« raised questions of urban aesthetics and memory as part of the multimedia documentary »Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920–1986.« Now, 20 years later, this important text is reissued along with several essays addressing its central themes, such as the aesthetics and politics of urban memory, the development of Los Angeles since the 20th century, the role of urban imaginaries in US politics, or media evolution in the 21st century. The volume also features a long interview with Klein and two docufables from Klein's celebrated study »The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory«, one being the kernel of the novella, the other imagining Walter Benjamin in L.A. Finally, the book contains links to two films featuring much of the multimedia material contained in the first edition.
Price: $30.00
Pages: 198
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Urban Studies
Publication Date:
07 March 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837665598
Format: Paperback
Jens Martin Gurr, born in 1974, is a professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is co-founder and speaker of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the Universitätsallianz Ruhr (KoMet). His research areas include literary urban studies, theories and methods of urban and metropolitan research, model theory, literature and climate change as well as British literature of the 17th to the 21st centuries and contemporary US fiction.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
0. Introduction 7
1. Bleeding Through 11
2. Montage and Superposition: The Poetics and Politics of Urban Memory in Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986 57
3. Spaces Between: Travelling Through Bleeds, Apertures and Wormholes Inside the Database Novel 97
4. Los Angeles since the End of Molly's Story: 1986-2021 117
5. "The Unreliable Narrator" 141
6. "Noir as the Ruins of the Left" 151
7. "The Morgue: Fifty Ways to Kill a Man" 163
8. Absences, Scripted Spaces and the Urban Imaginary: Unlikely Models for the City in the Twenty-First Century 167
9. Interview with Norman M. Klein: Bleeding Through, Media Evolution, Walter Benjamin, and American Politics (May 27, 2022) 177
Sources 195
