Land of Smoke and Mirrors A Cultural History of Los Angeles.
Material type: TextPublication details: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813554587
- Cultural pluralism
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Minorities
- Motion picture industry
- Popular culture
- Popular culture.California
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
- Popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
- Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
- Cultural pluralism -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
- Minorities -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions
- F869 .L363 2013
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) | G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE | Non-fiction | F869 .857 B76 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn818869299 |
Description based upon print version of record.
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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