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City of nets : a portrait of hollywood in the 1940s
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s opens with the movie industry at the pinnacle of its success, the banner year of 1939, which gave us Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Ninotchka, and ends 10 years later with the chaos of the HUAC hearings, the rise of television, and the Supreme Court's antitrust decision definitively ending the golden age of Hollywood as a vertically integrated monopoly.
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Land of Smoke and Mirrors
Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers-think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli-Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process that is simultaneously literal and figurative, real and imagined, material and metaphorical, physical and textual. Through penetrating analysis and personal engagement, Vincent Brook uncovers the many portraits of this ever-enticing, ever-ambivalent, and increasingly multicultural megalopolis. Divided into sections that probe Los Angeles's checkered history and reflect on Hollywood's own self-reflections, the book shows how the city, despite considerable remaining challenges, is finally blowing away some of the smoke of its not always proud past and rhetorically adjusting its rear-view mirrors.
Part I is a review of the city's history through the early 1900s, focusing on the seminal 1884 novelRamonaand its immediate effect, but also exploring its ongoing impact through interviews with present-day Tongva Indians, attendance at the 88th annualRamonapageant, and analysis of its feature film adaptations.
Brook deals with Hollywood as geographical site, film production center, and frame of mind in Part II. He charts the events leading up to Hollywood's emergence as the world's movie capital and explores subsequent developments of the film industry from its golden age through the so-called New Hollywood, citing such self-reflexive films asSunset Blvd.,
Singin' in the Rain, andThe Truman Show.
Part III considers LA noir, a subset of film noir that emerged alongside the classical noir cycle in the 1940s and 1950s and continues today. The city's status as a privileged noir site is analyzed in relation to its history and through discussions of such key LA noir novels and films asDouble Indemnity,Chinatown, andCrash.
In Part IV, Brook examines multicultural Los Angeles. Using media texts as signposts, he maps the history and contemporary situation of the city's major ethno-racial and other minority groups, looking at such films asMi Familia(Latinos),Boyz N the Hood(African Americans),Charlotte Sometimes(Asians),Falling Down(Whites), andThe Kids Are All Right(LGBT).
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The Archaeology of Hollywood
The Golden Age of Hollywood, dating to the hazy depths of the early 20th Century, was an era of movie stars worshipped by the masses and despotic studio moguls issuing decrees from poolside divans… but despite the world-wide reach of the movie industry, little more than memories of that era linger amidst the freeways and apartment complexes of today’s Los Angeles. Noted archaeologist Paul G. Bahn digs into the material traces of that Tinseltown in an effort to document and save the treasures that remain. Bahn leads readers on a tour of this singular culture, from the industrial zones of film studios to the landmarks where the glamorous lived, partied, and played, from where they died and were buried to how they’ve been memorialized for posterity. The result is part history, part archaeology—enlivened with pop culture, reminiscence, and whimsy—and throughout, it feeds and deepens our fascination with an iconic place and time, not to mention the personalities who brought it to life.
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Uninvited : confessions of a Hollywood party crasher
\"The first book to chronicle a unique subterranean culture in Los Angeles: the gate-crashers who routinely infiltrate Tinseltown's celebrity party circuit\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Movie Anecdotes
\"The perfect antidote to modern-day stress...Here's all the good stuff without having to plow through another tired Hollywood memoir...In this collection, [Hay] has certainly collared the better tales of moviemaking\"--Los Angeles Daily News. Hollywood, Walter Winchell quipped, is where they shoot too many movies and not enough actors. \"In 1940 I had my choice between Hitler and Hollywood,\" French director René Clair recalled, \"and I preferred Hollywood--just a little.\" Once again, Peter Hay has given us a hilarious collection of entertainment lore--this time about the moguls, producers, directors, and stars of the world of movies. Once you pick it up, just try to put it down.
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