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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles
Contributor(s): Shiel, Mark (Author)
ISBN: 1861899025     ISBN-13: 9781861899026
Publisher: Reaktion Books
OUR PRICE:   $38.61  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
Dewey: 791.430
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.5" W x 8.6" (1.35 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Cultural Region - Southern California
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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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 Including many previously unpublished photographs and new historical evidence, Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles gives us a never-before-seen view of the City of Angels.

Contributor Bio(s): Shiel, Mark: -

Mark Shiel is senior lecturer in film studies at Kings College, London. He is author of Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City and coeditor of Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context and Screening the City.