Land of Smoke and Mirrors : a Cultural History of Los Angeles /
"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 revea...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press
©2013.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjck3 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Original si(g)n. The Ramona myth
- Ramona revisited
- Si(g)n city. "City with two heads"
- What price Hollywood?
- L.A. noir. Bright and guilty place
- Neo-noir
- Multicultural L.A. LAtinos
- bLAcks
- LAsians
- LAnglos and LAGBTs
- Conclusion.