Norman Klein: Bleeding Through--Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986 (Book & DVD-ROM) [DVD-ROM]

Rosemary Comella (Author), Andreas Kratky (Author), Norman M. Klein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2, 2003

A loosely constructed documentary underlying a flexible literary journey, Bleeding Through 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.

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About the Author

Norman M. Klein is a professor at the California Institute of the Arts, and the author of The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory and Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon. A critic, historian, and novelist, he has written extensively on the culture and politics of Los Angeles, on cinema, and on architecture.

Rosemary Comella has been working since 1999 as a project director, interface designer and programmer at the Labyrinth Project. As part of Labyrinth, she developed the interface for Tracing the Decay of Fiction, collaboration between experimental filmmaker Pat O'Neill and the Labyrinth team, and she helped direct The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Current of the River, an interactive installation with filmmaker Peter Forgács. She also developed Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, an interactive installation and DVD-ROM, in collaboration with cultural historian Norman Klein and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany. She directed and served as photographer for Cultivating Pasadena: From Roses to Redevelopment, an installation and DVD-ROM, including catalog, exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2005. 

Andreas Kratky is a media artist and visiting assistant professor in the Interactive Media Division of the School for Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California. His work comprises several award winning projects like "That's Kyogen", the interactive installation and DVD "Bleeding Through - Layers of Los Angeles 1920-1986", and the algorithmic cinema system "Soft Cinema". His current work comprises the interactive installation "The Imaginary Twentieth Century" and "Venture to the Interior".
Besides numerous works published as interactive media, Kratky has published on his research work in human computer interaction and interface design. His art work has been shown internationally. 

Product Details

• DVD-ROM: 60 pages
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers; Book & DVD-ROM edition (July 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3775712801
• ISBN-13: 978-3775712804
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,593,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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