1.

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910705784603321

Autore

DeLombard Richard

Titolo

Microgravity environment description handbook / / Richard DeLombard [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center, , July 1997

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Collana

NASA technical memorandum ; ; 107486

Soggetti

Acceleration measurement

Environment effects

Gravitation

Handbooks

Microgravity

Mir space station

Space laboratories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 1997."

"Performing organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center" Report documentation page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical reference (page [21]).