L.A. Private Eyes

Author:   Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9780813596372


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   01 March 2019
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Author:   Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.40cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9780813596372


ISBN 10:   0813596378
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   01 March 2019
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Much more than a deftly written and comprehensive chronicle of the enduring appeal of the LA detective, Schweitzer's book compellingly traverses the fields of history, geography and popular culture so that we might more fully grasp this absorbing character and its inflections over decades of literature, radio, film and TV. From Philip Marlowe to Easy Rawlins to Veronica Mars, the author invites the reader on a compressed tour of the mean streets, stifling suburbs and sprawling highways inhabited by this private eye, with insight and acumen. If you think you know this icon already, Schweitzer's writing will make you think again. --Deborah Jermyn reader in Film and TV, University of Roehampton, and author of Prime Suspect With the same punchy, elegant concision true to the noir style, Schweitzer reappraises the long line of L.A. gumshoes from Philip Marlowe and Easy Rawlins through Veronica Mars. --Noah Isenberg author of We'll Always Have Casablanca Dahlia Schweitzer pounds the pavement in search of the gumshoes who pervade the city and popular culture. She uncovers the clues, weighs the evidence, and presents her case in yet another terrific, informative read. --Mike White host of the Projection Booth Podcast Slip into the gritty romantic noir of the LA detective scene with Dahlia Schweitzer and you won't want to leave--at least not until she's helped you unlock the genre's mysteries, its place in American culture and its evolution. Bring a fedora, a stiff drink and a desire to understand, as Schweitzer does, the light and dark sides of the private eye. --Jonathan Allen coauthor of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign


Slip into the gritty romantic noir of the LA detective scene with Dahlia Schweitzer and you won't want to leave -- at least not until she's helped you unlock the genre's mysteries, its place in American culture and its evolution. Bring a fedora, a stiff drink and a desire to understand, as Schweitzer does, the light and dark sides of the private eye. --Jonathan Allen co-author of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign Much more than a deftly written and comprehensive chronicle of the enduring appeal of the LA detective, Schweitzer's book compellingly traverses the fields of history, geography and popular culture so that we might more fully grasp this absorbing character and its inflections over decades of literature, radio, film and TV. From Philip Marlowe to Easy Rawlins to Veronica Mars, the author invites the reader on a compressed tour of the mean streets, stifling suburbs and sprawling highways inhabited by this private eye, with insight and acumen. If you think you know this icon already, Schweitzer's writing will make you think again. --Deborah Jermyn reader in Film and TV, University of Roehampton, and author of Prime Suspect With the same punchy, elegant concision true to the noir style, Schweitzer reappraises the long line of L.A. gumshoes from Philip Marlowe and Easy Rawlins through Veronica Mars. --Noah Isenberg author of We'll Always Have Casablanca Dahlia Schweitzer pounds the pavement in search of the gumshoes who pervade the city and popular culture. She uncovers the clues, weighs the evidence, and presents her case in yet another terrific, informative read. --Mike White host of the Projection Booth Podcast


Much more than a deftly written and comprehensive chronicle of the enduring appeal of the LA detective, Schweitzer's book compellingly traverses the fields of history, geography and popular culture so that we might more fully grasp this absorbing character and its inflections over decades of literature, radio, film and TV. From Philip Marlowe to Easy Rawlins to Veronica Mars, the author invites the reader on a compressed tour of the mean streets, stifling suburbs and sprawling highways inhabited by this private eye, with insight and acumen. If you think you know this icon already, Schweitzer's writing will make you think again. --Deborah Jermyn reader in Film and TV, University of Roehampton, and author of Prime Suspect With the same punchy, elegant concision true to the noir style, Schweitzer reappraises the long line of L.A. gumshoes from Philip Marlowe and Easy Rawlins through Veronica Mars. --Noah Isenberg author of We'll Always Have Casablanca Dahlia Schweitzer pounds the pavement in search of the gumshoes who pervade the city and popular culture. She uncovers the clues, weighs the evidence, and presents her case in yet another terrific, informative read. --Mike White host of the Projection Booth Podcast Slip into the gritty romantic noir of the LA detective scene with Dahlia Schweitzer and you won't want to leave--at least not until she's helped you unlock the genre's mysteries, its place in American culture and its evolution. Bring a fedora, a stiff drink and a desire to understand, as Schweitzer does, the light and dark sides of the private eye. --Jonathan Allen coauthor of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign The Projection Booth interview with Dahlia Schweitzer--The Projection Booth WICN.org Inquiry podcast interview with Dahlia Schweitzer--Inquiry podcast


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DAHLIA SCHWEITZER is a professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She is also the author of Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World (Rutgers University Press).

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