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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 mean streets that his hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, prowled in the writer s exacting prose. But the biggest crime 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 enlarges the record of L.A. history with this grassroots investigation of a vanished place."
Book Details
- Publisher: History Press Library Editions
- Publish Date: Jun 22nd, 2012
- Pages: 162
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.44in - 0.85lb
- EAN: 9781540206824
- Categories: • United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT• Film - History & Criticism• American - General