From Tinseltown to Bordertown : Los Angeles on film / Celestino Deleyto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deleyto, Celestino, author.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Los Angeles (Calif.)--In motion pictures.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Physical Description:

viii, 296 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social narrative is linked to one of its top exports: cinema. LA appears on screen more than almost any city and is also known for its steady immigration, social inequalities, and exclusionary urban practices, not dissimilar to any other borderland in the world. The impact of the 1992 Los Angeles riots left the city raw, yet brought about changing discourses and provided Hollywood with the opportunity to rebrand its hometown by projecting to the world a new image in which social uniformity is challenged by diversity. In From Tinseltown to Bordertown: Los Angeles an Film, Celestino Deleyto takes a closer look at how the quintessential cinematic city contributes to the ongoing creation of its own representation on the screen and how the special borderliness of the city is becoming more evident in cinematic stories. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Exorbitant City 1

2 Rodney King's Los Angeles in the Hollywood Mainstream 29

Part I Historical Continuities

3 Alienation and Redemption in the City of Angels 63

4 Breaking at the Seams: White Los Angeles 89

5 Tinseltown 123

Part II The Legacy of the Riots

6 Out of the Past 145

7 The Plot Thickens: Multi-Protagonist LA 165

8 Bordertown 191

Part III The Brown City

9 Browning the Millennium 221

10 The Border Look and Chicano Los Angeles 247.

ISBN:

0814339859

9780814339855

OCLC:

957636089