Movie-made Los Angeles / John Trafton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trafton, John, 1982- author.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series.

Contemporary approaches to film and media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles.

Motion picture industry.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915.

Contents:

Introduction: "300 days of sunshine"

1. Semi-tropical California

2. California in Plein air

3. Selig builds a zoo

4. Don Carlos

5. Off the record

6. Sunshine modernism

7. Movie-made Los Angeles.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814347782

0814347789

OCLC:

1388501638