Main entry:

Shiel, Mark.

Title & Author:

Hollywood cinema and the real Los Angeles / Mark Shiel.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2012.

Description:

336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-322) and index.
The trace -- Navigation -- The simulacrum -- Geopolitical pressure point.

Summary:

"Hollywood cinema and Los Angeles cannot be understood apart. Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles traces the interaction of the real city, its movie business, and filmed image, focusing on the crucial period from the construction of the first studios in the 1910s to the decline of the studio system fifty years later.
As Los Angeles gradually became one of the ten largest cities in the world, the film industry made key contributions to its rapid growth and frequent crises in economic, social, political and cultural life. Whether filmmakers engaged with the real city on location or recreated it on a studio set, Los Angeles shaped the films that were made there and circulated influentially worldwide. The book pays particular attention to early cinema, slapstick comedy, movies about the movies and film noir, which are each explored in new ways, with an emphasis on urban and architectural space and its representation, as well as filmmaking style and technique. Including many previously unpublished photographs and new historical evidence, Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles gives us a never-before-seen view of the City of Angels."--Pub. desc.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781861899026
1861899025

Subject:

Motion picture industry California Los Angeles History.
Motion pictures Production and direction California Los Angeles History.
City and town life California Los Angeles History.
Cinéma Industrie Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
Cinéma Production et réalisation Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
Vie urbaine Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
City and town life.
Motion picture industry.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures Production and direction.
Film noir
Film
Filmwirtschaft
Los Angeles- Hollywood
Slapstick
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) History.
Los Angeles (Calif.) History 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) In motion pictures.
California Los Angeles.
California Los Angeles Hollywood.
USA

Form/genre:

Film noir.
History.
Films noirs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279624
Call No.: BIB 215746
Status: Available