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Looking for Los Angeles : Architecture, Film, Photography, and the Urban Landscape by Michael Roth (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100892366168
ISBN-139780892366163
eBay Product ID (ePID)1897480
Product Key Features
Book TitleLooking for Los Angeles : Architecture, Film, Photography, and the Urban Landscape
Number of Pages340 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicUnited States / State & Local / General, United States / 20th Century, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, American / General, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), Photoessays & Documentaries, History / General
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Travel, Political Science, Architecture, Photography, History
AuthorMichael Roth
Book SeriesIssues and Debates Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight42.2 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-000436
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal979.4/9405
SynopsisOften referred to as the city of the future, Los Angeles is known for its sprawl, its constant change, and its special relationship to the film industry. The twelve contributors to Looking for Los Angeles focus on dramatic shifts in the urban landscape, important moments in the city's architectural history, and the role of the image in this mecca of image makers. Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom searches for Los Angeles's center and finds a city that "breaks itself down, builds itself up again, displaces and regroups itself" and where "freedom of movement" is a basic premise of life. Historian Philip Ethington documents the city's changing character in both text and images, urban studies professor Dana Cuff exposes the demise of once-thriving urban neighborhoods to make way for Modernist housing projects, and anthropologist Susan A. Phillips invites us on a personal journey into "the projects" to meet gang members and their families today. Artist Robbert Flick offers a sixteen-page, full-color photo-essay that takes us on a "drive-by" along Alameda Avenue, architectural historian Thomas S. Hines traces Frank Lloyd Wright's influence on the life and career of photographer Edmund Teske, and film historian Robert L. Carringer examines Los Angeles as a setting for Hollywood feature films.
LC Classification NumberNX511.L67L66 2001
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