Tracing the Decay of Fiction: Encounters with a Film by Pat O'Neill (DVD-ROM)

Politics & Social Sciences

Marsha Kinder

Rosemary Comella

Kristy H.A. Kang

Archaeology

Annenberg Communications Inst

<p>A loosely constructed documentary underlying a flexible literary journey, <i>Bleeding Through</i> is an urban bricolage held together by the outline of a novel spanning 66 years. An interactive DVD-ROM, it explores the ideas of renowned cultural historian Norman Klein. At the center of the story is Molly--based on a real-life person--who may be hiding a murderer. She lives within a three-square-mile area near downtown Los Angeles, a death zone where more cinematic murders have been committed than anywhere else in the world. This neighborhood, one of the most complex ethnographic districts in the United States, is represented in Hollywood movies, urban legends, and real estate boosterism in ways that erase the lived ethnographic reality. Out of this rich blend of narratives, users must decide what to include and what to leave out so that their own version of the story will become legible--thus the reader discovers how fictions are concocted and misinformation disseminated.</p>

Norman Klein: Bleeding Through

Arts & Photography

Norman M. Klein

Andreas Kratky

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz Publishers

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