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.

Jens Martin Gurr, born in 1974, is a professor of British and Anglophone literature and culture at the Universität Duisburg-Essen. He was co-founder of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the University Alliance Ruhr (Kompetenzfeld Metropolenforschung/KoMet). His research areas include literary urban studies, theories and methods of urban and metropolitan research, model theory, literature and climate change as well as British literature of the 17th to the 21st centuries and contemporary US fiction.