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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles
Mark Shiel
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Description for Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles
Hardcover. 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. Written by an expert in the history and theory of cinema and the city, this book describes the ever-changing cinematic image of Los Angeles. Num Pages: 336 pages, 147 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; APF; KNTC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 634.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
623g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861899026
SKU
V9781861899026
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About Mark Shiel
Mark Shiel is Senior Lecturer in film studies at Kings College London. He is the author of Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City (2006), and co-editor of Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (2001) and Screening the City (2003).
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