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Freud in Coney Island · Norman M. Klein     and other tales      

                                                    

To enter, one had to pass through “Creation,” a music-hall version of Genesis. Creation began at the mouth of a huge tunnel, featuring the massive thighs and vagina of a plaster nude thirty feet high. Her breasts were larger than haystacks. She sparked at least two sentences. A phrase from one survives, in the recently uncovered Freud Ephemera: “…or do Americans prefer genitalia large enough to crush a man, or at least ruin his hat?”

 

Norman Klein is a cultural critic, urban and media historian, and a novelist. His books include: The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory (1997), Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon (1996), the data/cinematic novel, Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-86 (2003), and The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects (2004). He is professor of critical studies at CalArts, and an adjunct professor at ULSA and Art Center College of Design.


Reviews:

Los Angeles Times- Old haunts revisited
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/02/books/bk-ehrenreich2

Village Voice- Analyze This
http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-09-26/books/analyze-this/

Outside Left- A Coney Island of the Mind
http://www.outsideleft.com/main.php?updateID=789


Interviews:

LA Weekly- The Distant Present
http://www.laweekly.com/2005-10-06/news/the-distant-present/

16 Beaver Group- Interview with Norman Klein on the New Canon
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/002324.php


ISBN:  0-9755924-6-7
PRICE:  $12.95
Published 2006
104 pages

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