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Author Minge, Jeanine Marie

Title Concrete and Dust
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
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Subject Sex in popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
Sex -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
Sex
Sex in popular culture
California -- Los Angeles
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Zimmerman, Amber Lynn
ISBN 9781136159923
1136159924