Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!Arcadia Publishing, 22 giu 2012 - 163 pagine An illustrated history of the iconic Hollywood neighborhood featured in numerous film noir classics—and the shadowy story of how it disappeared. 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 used its real-life mean streets to lend authenticity to his hardboiled detective stories featuring Philip Marlowe. But the biggest crime of all was going on behind the scenes, run by the city’s power elite. And Hollywood just happened to capture it on film. Using nearly eighty photos, writer Jim Dawson sheds new light on Los Angeles history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place. |
Sommario
| 1881 | |
| 1882 | |
| 1885 | |
| 1900 | |
HardBoiled Memories | 1909 |
Bunker Hill Goes Hollywood | |
Last Double Bill and Testament | |
There Once Was a City Here 7 High Crimes and Misdirections | |
A Selective List of Films Shot on Bunker Hill | |
Bibliography About the Author | |
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