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Title: Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction by David M. Fine ISBN: 0-8263-2207-7 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ever Since Ramona
Comment: I finished reading David Fine's excellent book Imagining Los Angeles: A City In Fiction at just before 2 am this morning. I was reading in bed in my 1923 bungalow in Whittier, California. It was a quiet night. No winds blowing; even the neighborhood dogs were asleep. It was too humid and Fine's wonderful analysis of Los Angeles fiction had my mind going a mile a minute. I thought about going for a drive; maybe listen to a little late-night radio, but I knew my wife would worry if she woke up and found me gone. I finally got to sleep, knowing I'd have to type up this report as soon as I got out of bed this morning.
Fine's book is not encyclopedic; if you are looking for a complete listing of SoCal fiction, you'll need to look elsewhere. Imagining Los Angeles is an overview - an introduction, a history with examples - of fiction set in the Los Angeles metro area. The first chapter gives you a little background on the area. Then Fine takes the reader on a literary journey from booster fiction, through fiction in the 20's, hard-boiled fiction, tough-guy detectives, the Hollywood novel and finishes with more ethnically oriented fiction and Los Angeles as a setting for disaster. The book is serious - probably not a summer beach read - but it also kept me in rapt attention and didn't read like the textbook Professor Fine could have turned it into. In my opinion, this book should appeal to a wide audience - from the serious literary student to the pop culture buff looking for a little backstory.
A lady just walked into my office (actually, my three legged female mutt just hopped into the 1980 guesthouse behind the bungalow) looking for my attention, so I better end this report now.
Sincerely Submitted, agnostictrickster 13 August 2001
Rating: 5
Summary: A terrific overview of LA fiction
Comment: This is a terrific book, that rare academic work that is both entertaining and instructive. Having grown up in L.A., but no longer living there now, I truly enjoyed revisiting the city of my childhood and young adulthood via all the stories and authors Fine discusses. Fine's writing style is clear and blessedly free of academic jargon. His treatment of a wide variety of books and ideas is nothing short of a tour-de-force. "Imagining Los Angeles" does exactly what good literary scholarship should do: shine fresh light on books and their authors and make readers eager to discover the books for themselves! (I've just placed a mega-order for several of the titles Fine discusses... )
Rating: 5
Summary: Review from American Library Association's CHOICE magazine
Comment: "Fine's research is extensive and thorough, his observations shrewd and penetrating, and his command of the political, social, and cultural matrix profound. A major contribution."--D. W. Madden, California State University, Sacramento--CHOICE, January 2001
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Title: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles by Elizabeth Ward, Alain Silver ISBN: 0879513519 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America) by David L. Ulin ISBN: 1931082278 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Another City: Writing from Los Angeles by David L. Ulin ISBN: 0872863913 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism by Dana Cuff ISBN: 0262532026 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots' : Race, Seeing, and Resistance by Darnell M. Hunt, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman ISBN: 0521578140 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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