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Los Angeles in the 1930s : the WPA guide to the City of Angels
Describes a pivotal moment in Los Angeles history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations--and the mystique--for which the City of Angels is still known. Los Angeles in the 1930s a guide to the contemporary culture, with a brief L.A. history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Schreiber
Kipen highlights some of the reasons that make the late screenwriter Paul Dehn worth remembering not just on his centenary by film critics, but by anybody fascinated with who's responsible for their favorite movies. Dehn was a poet, a critic, a spy in World War II and an Oscar-award winning screenwriter that reinvented British mystery, the Shakespeare adaptation, and the spy film. His movies include the adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, James Bond Goldfinger, Planet of the Apes, and Seven Days to Noon.
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California in the 1930s
Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, \"anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming.\" Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the 1930s, the WPA Guide to California features some of the very best anonymous literature of its era, with writing by luminaries such as San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, composer-writer- hobo Harry Partch, and authors Tillie Olsen and Kenneth Patchen.
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Introduction 2013
The only 1939 features not replicated as part of this reissued WPA guide to California are the original cover photograph and a full-size fold-out map tucked into a pocket in the back. The first edition’s jacket carried a black and white picture of two or three immense redwoods towering well out of frame, dwarfing the couple of figures—hikers? rangers? lumber-men?—standing around beneath them. It’s a good but not a great image, capturing only one of many themes that run through the book: California’s ambivalent response, usually either rapturous or rapacious, to nature.
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