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Informationen zum Autor VINCENT BROOK teaches at UCLA, USC, Cal State–LA, and Pierce College. He is the author of Something Ain’t Kosher Here: The Rise of the "Jewish" Sitcom and Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir (both Rutgers University Press). Klappentext Land of Smoke and Mirrors looks at greater Los Angeles through the images projected from within and without its geographical and psychological borders. Divided into sections that probe the city’s checkered history and reflect on Hollywood’s own self reflections, the book offers revealing readings of different types of texts (novelistic, cinematic, event-related, and geographical) to expose how Los Angeles, despite considerable remaining challenges, is blowing away some of the smoke of its not always proud past and rhetorically adjusting its rear-view mirrors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Original si(g)n. The Ramona myth Ramona revisited Si(g)n city. "City with two heads" What price Hollywood? L.A. noir. Bright and guilty place Neo-noir Multicultural L.A. LAtinos bLAcks LAsians LAnglos and LAGBTs Conclusion
