http://www.normanklein.com/
Norman Klein is a professor at California Institute of the Arts. Author of "Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon"(Verso,1993), as well of dozens of essays on the history, politics, and aesthetics of mass culture. He is currently at work on a history of special effects environments since 1450, from Vatican to Vegas, including f/x cinema, cyberspace, and of course, Herbed Cinema and digitized Hollywood. He also wrote "The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory (Verso); , he is a coeditor of the anthology "City in Turmoil: LA Since 1945 and of the editor of anthology "Fragile Monuments: A History of Media-induced Experience".

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10 LINKS : Balzac, "Lost Illusions." Baudelaire, the phrase "Luxe, calme et volupte" (accent on e) In Rome, the sculpted theater box watching Bernini's Saint Theresa in ecstasy The opening line of Raymond Chandler's "Red Heat," about the madness of the Santa Ana winds on a lonely drinking night Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson, "Sodom by the Sea: an Affectionate History of Coney Island" (pub. 1941) (I spent eight years of my childhood in Coney Island. Like this rare book, the house where I lived has disappeared, except on my bookshelf.) Grandville, "Bizarreries and Drolleries," his wood engraving of "Fish Fishing for People" "Turning from the Millennium,"

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John Heartfield Photomontage of the Corrupt, Cautious Politician In "Diary of Madman" by Gogol, the moment when Porprischen realizes that each time he writes down the word Spain, it comes out as China. In Borges story "Funes the Memorious:" the instant when Funes forces himself to sit in the dark, in a labyrinth of short term memories that never go away. He tries to survive inside his own impacted sense of the present