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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452560503321

Autore

Minge Jeanine

Titolo

Concrete and dust : mapping the sexual terrains of Los Angeles / / Jeanine M. Minge and Amber Lynn Zimmerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07942-6

1-283-89433-5

1-136-15992-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Innovative ethnographies

Altri autori (Persone)

ZimmermanAmber Lynn

Disciplina

306.70973

Soggetti

Sex in popular culture - California - Los Angeles - History

Sex - California - Los Angeles - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of images -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Los Angeles river -- Introduction: Los Angeles River, revisited -- Burbank -- Burbank, revisited -- Chatsworth -- Chatsworth, revisited -- Hollywood Hills -- Hollywood Hills, revisited -- West Hollywood -- West Hollywood, revisited -- Topanga -- Topanga, revisited -- Conclusion: here -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index -- Images.

Sommario/riassunto

Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness. The cultural turn in ethnography has expanded the scope of ethnographic research methods, which now include innovative techniques that recognize and value sensuous scholarship (ethnographic works that incorporate visual, aural, and sensory texts). Hollywood has often been a focus in critical cultural theory; absent