Los Angeles plays itself / Burton/Floyd presents ; research/text/production, Thom Andersen.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:
Cinema Guild (Film distributor)
Other Authors:
Andersen, Thom (Film producer, Film director)
King, Encke (Narrator)
Subjects:
Documentary films > United States.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Popular culture > California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > In motion pictures.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > History.
Format: Video DVD
Los Angeles plays itself /
Table of Contents:
  • Part one : Another way to look at movies
  • Reality and representation
  • Locations
  • Hollywood
  • "L.A." and "the industry"
  • The city as background: the city with no name
  • The Bradbury Building
  • The decline of public spaces
  • Benign lies
  • Geographic license and literalism
  • Modern architecture
  • Landmarks
  • Disaster movies
  • The city as character: James M. Cain
  • A brighter world
  • Film noir
  • Things that aren't there any more
  • Bunker Hill
  • Part two : High tourist/low tourist
  • The outside men: Deray, Antonioni, Demy
  • The city as subject: Chinatown
  • Modes of transportation
  • Downtown vs. the suburbs
  • Blade Runner
  • L.A. confidential
  • Cops
  • The provincialism of over-privilege
  • Neorealism.
  • Booklet : The introduction / Thom Andersen
  • Tourists from hell / Mike Davis
  • Los Angeles a city on film / Thom Andersen.

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