TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brook,Vincent
TI  - Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles
SN  - 9780813554587
AV  - F869 .L363 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Piscataway
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Popular culture.California
KW  - History
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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