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Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers-think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli-Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process that is simultaneously literal and figurative, real and imagined, material and metaphorical, physical and textual. Vincent Brook invites readers along as he uncovers the many portraits of this ever-enticing, ever-ambivalent, and increasingly multicultural megalopolis. Divided into sections that probe Los Angeles's checkered history and reflect on Hollywood's own self-reflections, the book shows how the city is finally blowing away some of the smoke of its t always proud past and rhetorically adjusting its rear-view mirrors.* Part I is a review of the city's history through 1910, focusing on the seminal 1884 vel Ramon; and its contemporary impact through interviews with present-day Tongva Indians, attendance at the 88th annual Ramon pageant, and analysis of its feature film adaptations.* Brook deals with Hollywood as geographical site, film production center, and frame of mind in Part II. He charts the events leading up to Hollywood's emergence as the world's movie capital and explores subsequent developments of the film industry from its golden age through the so-called New Hollywood, citing such self-reflexive films as Sunset Blvd.,Singin' in the Rain, and The Truman Show* Part III considers LA ir, a subset of film ir that emerged alongside the classical ir cycle in the 1940s and 1950s and continues today. The city's status as a privileged ir site is analyzed in relation to its history and through discussions of such key LA ir vels and films as Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and Crash* In Part IV, Brook examines multicultural Los Angeles. Using media texts as signposts, he maps the history and contemporary situation of the city's major eth-racial and other mirity groups, looking at such films as Mi Familia (Latis), Boyz N the Hood (African Americans), Charlotte Sometimes (Asians), Falling Down (Whites), and The Kids Are All Right (LGBT).

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Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
081355456x
ISBN-13
9780813554563
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129177726

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Vincent Brook
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Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History: Specific Subjects
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Textbook

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235mm
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156mm

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Place of Publication
New Brunswick, NJ
Content Note
44 Photographs
Author Biography
Vincent Brook teaches at UCLA, USC, Cal State-LA, and Pierce College. He is the author of Something Ain't Kosher Here: The Rise of the Jewish Sitcom and Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir; (both Rutgers University Press).
Date of Publication
15/01/2013
Genre
History: Specific Subjects
Country of Publication
United States

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Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles by Vincent Brook (Paperback, 2013)

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