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Abandoned images : film and film's end / Stephen Barber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barber, Stephen, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture theaters--California--Los Angeles--History.
- Motion picture theaters.
- Motion picture theaters--Remodeling for other use--California--Los Angeles.
- Motion picture audiences--Attitudes.
- Motion picture audiences.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Broadway Avenue in downtown Los Angeles contains an extraordinary collection of twelve abandoned film palaces, all built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide such a concentration of original cinema houses would have been demolished long ago-b
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Film and the end
- pt. 2. Abandoned images
- pt. 3. Abandoned eyes
- pt. 4. Film and film's end : resuscitated images.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-189).
- ISBN:
- 9786612796036
- 9781282796034
- 1282796038
- 9781861897206
- 1861897200
- OCLC:
- 671655025
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