In 2003 Norman M. Klein's docufable »Bleeding Through« raised questions of urban aesthetics
and memory as part of the multimedia documentary »Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles
1920-1986.« Now 20 years later this important text is reissued along with several essays
addressing its central themes such as the aesthetics and politics of urban memory the
development of Los Angeles since the 20th century the role of urban imaginaries in US politics
or media evolution in the 21st century. The volume also features a long interview with Klein
and two docufables from Klein's celebrated study »The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and
the Erasure of Memory« one being the kernel of the novella the other imagining Walter
Benjamin in L.A. Finally the book contains links to two films featuring much of the multimedia
material contained in the first edition.
