Vincent Brook

Land of Smoke and Mirrors

A Cultural History of Los Angeles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Land of Smoke and Mirrors looks at greater Los Angeles through the images projected from within and without its geographical and psychological borders. Divided into sections that probe the city’s checkered history and reflect on Hollywood’s own self reflections, the book offers revealing readings of different types of texts (novelistic, cinematic, event-related, and geographical) to expose how Los Angeles, despite considerable remaining challenges, is blowing away some of the smoke of its not always proud past and rhetorically adjusting its rear-view mirrors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 301
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780813554570
• ISBN-10: 0813554578
• Artikelnr.: 36951095

Autorenporträt

Brook, Vincent

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Original si(g)n. The Ramona myth
Ramona revisited
Si(g)n city. "City with two heads"
What price Hollywood?
L.A. noir. Bright and guilty place
Neo-noir
Multicultural L.A. LAtinos
bLAcks
LAsians
LAnglos and LAGBTs
Conclusion