Los Angeles: the 'City of Angels'. Whether this epithet evokes sunshine and beaches, glamorous movie stars or the possibility of fame, many around the world have a fantasy of this enchanting, impossible place stored in their minds. Its reality is as much the record of the place on film as the 'real' Los Angeles. This is because Los Angeles is first and foremost a city of cinema, both in the movies that are made there, and the filmed image of the place, either recorded on location or recreated in a studio set. In Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles, Mark Shiel explores Los Angeles from the invention of motion pictures in the 1890s to the decline of the studio system in the 1950s, describing the ever-changing cinematic image of the city, and the ways in which its representations reflected and manipulated its physical geography.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Reaktion Books
ISBN-13
9781861899026
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113747326
Product Key Features
Author
Mark Shiel
Publication Name
Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Business
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Mark Shiel
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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