Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and

Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!

When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring the real-life â€œmean streetsâ€ that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writerâ€™s exacting prose. But the biggest crime was going on behind the scenes, run by the cityâ€™s power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos, writer Jim Dawson enlarges the record of L.A. history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place.
Country USA
Brand The History Press
Manufacturer The History Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781609495466
ReleaseDate 2012-06-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781609495466

Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!