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

• Autore: Minge Jeanine
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.70973
• Soggetto topico: Sex in popular culture - California - Los Angeles - History; Sex - California - Los Angeles - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ZimmermanAmber Lynn
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Concrete and dust
• ISBN: 0-203-07942-6; 1-283-89433-5; 1-136-15992-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452560503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Innovative ethnographies.