Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Real Estate of Crime: The Black Dahlia Dumped by the Side of
the Road
2. Mobsters and Movie Stars: Crime, Punishment, and Hollywood
Celebrity
3. Hollywood Confi dential: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los
Angeles
4. Hollywood’s Last Lonely Places: The Sad, Short Stories of
Barbara Payton and Marilyn Monroe
Notes
Index
Jon Lewis is Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and University Honors College Eminent Professor at Oregon State University. He has published eleven books, including Whom God Wishes to Destroy ... : Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood and Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, is past editor of Cinema Journal, and served on the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
"Jon Lewis's range as a film scholar is vast... He leaves us with the conviction that the movie business is even more complicated and dangerous than we ever suspected, but never without great plots." National Post
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