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Land of Smoke and Mirrors A Cultural History of Los Angeles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813554587
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F869 .L363 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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.

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