Fallen Hollywood Blog

When I started this adventure, the name “Fallen Hollywood” just stuck. I have been a student of Victorian and post-Victorian society since my undergraduate days, so when I look objectively at Hollywood as a neighborhood, I see it as fallen. Fallen Woman is an archaic concept, it was  used to describe a woman who is outside society either due to birth or circumstances. It was predominantly used to describe sex workers. The use of the word Fallen, is taken from the “fall” of Ad

Hollywood has been called many things over the years: Tinseltown, La-La Land, The City of (broken) Dreams and The Entertainment Capital of the World. But for thousands of years it was native land until it was conquered and colonized by Spain. It then became Nopalera, Mexico named after the Nopalera Cactus that flourished in the area. That was until the Mexican-American war when California, along with Texas and the Southwest were “acquired” by the US.  Then the Manifest Destin