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Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood

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Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood
Lauren Greenfield
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0811844137

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Now available in paperback, Lauren Greenfield's acclaimed Fast Forward is a powerful look at Los Angeles youth culture and its influence on the rest of our society. From the affluent children of the Westside to the graffiti gangs and party crews of East LA, young Angelenos reckon with an overwhelming barrage of advertising and entertainment images emphasizing money, possessions, and eternal youth. This collection of 79 color photographs, accompanied by interviews with the children and their parents, reveals the realities of growing up fast in a culture that is at once irresistible and unforgiving. A compelling precursor to Greenfield's widely praised Girl Culture, Fast Forward is a telling document of the direction in which today's ultra image-conscious culture is pointed.

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Beverly Hills 90201 meets Village of the Damned

Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood
Lauren Greenfield
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Girl Culture

ASIN: 0679454535
Release Date: 1997-04-22

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A 13-year-old girl works out at the track with her personal trainer. Two 17-year-olds caress their newborn. A 7-year-old pauses on the red carpet outside the Shrine Auditorium on her way into the Academy Awards ceremony. A 16-year-old lifts his shirt to reveal a hairless chest wreathed in tattoos. These are but a few of the provocative images that fill the pages of Fast Forward, a collection of portraits capturing children from East L.A. to Bel-Air. Many of these photos are accompanied by the kids' own words about their lives and the world around them, often revealing a wisdom beyond their years and a naiveness--a failure to understand the values in which they are immersed. What emerges from these images and words is an alluring, if at times disturbing, portrait of a generation perhaps too quick to leave its innocence behind.

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Photographer Lauren Greenfield capures often shocking, always startling images of children at school, at play, or at home in the precocious city of Los Angeles. The stunning color photographs range from the children of the gang culture of South Central and East L.A. to the affluent, often show-business world of the Westside. Underlying is the overwhelming importance of image and celebrity, with its materialistic trappings of fast cars and expensive clothes. 80 full-color photos.

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I am in the book.......1998-07-17

The book was brillant. It showed every aspect of living in LA. The articles and reviews that surrounded the book after it's publisihng were off base. Lauren should be Proud of herself.

A comment from one of those kids.......1997-08-03

Well if you open this book you'll see my friends and classmates . . . Although I wonder why the pictures in this book are considerably older than the copyright date, this book does and excellent job of profiling the kids of LA in the early nineties not 1997. California experienced quite an economic uproar since since those Bar Mitzah days! Also, I wonder why this book is entitled "Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood." As one of those "shadowed" youths ( I attended the Harvard-Westlake School whose prom clad students appear in the beginning of the book), I can assure you that Hollywood is neither the mainstay of the Beverly Hills culture nor is it the mainstay of the South Central culture, both which are depicted in this book. Nevertheless, this book creates a realistic picture of life in 90210, 90077, and the all the other 90000's . .

Beverly Hills 90201 meets Village of the Damned.......1997-07-23

The only thing scarier than some of the pictures in this chronicle of teenage LA, is knowing that it's only the tip of the iceberg. From the rich brats to the gangsters and their wannabe imitations, Greenfield does a great job of capturing the shallow lives of these kids. Almost Jacob Riis-like in its literal illumination of the subject

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Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood
Leah Painter Roberts
Manufacturer: Alfred a Knopf Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KYFZME

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Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood.
Lauren. Greenfield
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf / Melcher Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O2N7G8

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Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood
Lauren Greenfield
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf / Melcher Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NSR5ES

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