Land of Smoke and Mirrors : A Cultural History of Los Angeles.
Title:
Land of Smoke and Mirrors : A Cultural History of Los Angeles.
Author:
Brook, Vincent.
ISBN:
9780813554587
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part I. Original Si(g)n -- Chapter 1. The Ramona Myth -- Chapter 2. Ramona Revisited -- Part II. Si(g)n City -- Chapter 3. "City with Two Heads" -- Chapter 4. What Price Hollywood? -- Part III. L.A. Noir -- Chapter 5. Bright and Guilty Place -- Chapter 6. Neo-Noir -- Part IV. Multicultural L.A. -- Chapter 7. LAtinos -- Chapter 8. bLAcks -- Chapter 9. LAsians -- Chapter 10. LAnglos and LAGBTs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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