Sex, Death & God in L.A.

1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-520-08640-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 207 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

David Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best address the myths, define the truths, and interpret the media images of the second largest city in the U.S. They report on the new Latino and Asian populations of South Central and the East Side and the old establishment of the West side; Downtown with its heavily mortgaged office towers held by Canadian and Japanese landlords; shuttered factories and thriving sweatshops; architecture from Irving Gill to Frank O. Gehry; messiahs from Krishnamurti to L. Ron Hubbard; rituals of power in Movieland and yoga and seduction in Beverly Hills. Ranging from acute political commentary to evocative literary impressions, this is a collection that will engage not only those who live in southern California but all those curious about this megalopolis in the desert.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reid, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors:

Alexander Cockburn
Mike Davis
Carolyn See
Eve Babitz
Lynell George
David Reid
Rubén Martinez
Thomas S. Hines
David Thomson
Jeremy Larner

Über Autor(innen)

David Reid is a writer living in Berkeley who grew up in southern California and was educated at Claremont-McKenna College and the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor, with Leonard Michaels and Raquel Scherr, of West of the West: Imagining California (1991).