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Los Angeles plays itself / Burton/Floyd presents ; research/text/production, Thom Andersen.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 025 193 disc + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--In motion pictures.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- History.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--History.
- Popular culture--California--Los Angeles.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Film clips.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages ; 19 cm)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cinema Guild, 2014.
- System Details:
- DVD; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0.
- digital optical stereo Dolby
- video file DVD video
- Summary:
- "Thom Andersen's landmark documentary explores the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown, as seen entirely through the films themselves. From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and revealing the real city that lives beneath" --Container.
- Contents:
- Part one : Credits ; 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 ; Landmarks ; Disaster movies; The city as character: James M. Cain ; A brighter world ; Film noir ; Things that aren't 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.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Encke King.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003.
- Special features: The Tony Longo trilogy (2014, 14 minutes) a short film by Thom Andersen; theatrical trailer; collectible booklet featuring essays by Mike Davis, author of "City of quartz: excavating the future of Los Angeles" and Thom Andersen.
- Contains:
- Container of: Tony Longo trilogy.
- ISBN:
- 0781514843
- 9780781514842
- OCLC:
- 891782923
- Publisher Number:
- 881164000842
- CG 000148 Cinema Guild
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