The Most Typical Avant-Garde : History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles by David E. James (2005, Hardcover)

University of California Press

0520242572

9780520242579

30779980

David E. James

Most Typical Avantgarde : History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles

Hardcover

English

Film / General, Human Geography, Industries / Entertainment

2005

Textbook

Business & Economics, Social Science, Performing Arts

562 Pages

10 in

1.5 in

7 in

34.3 Oz

2004-009964

2004009964

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Avant-Garde Cinemas in Los Angeles 2. The Twenties: Avant-Garde in Hollywood 3. Hollywood Extras: A Great Tradition in Avant-Garde Cinema 4. The Thirties: Avant-Garde in the Industry 5. An Impossible Avant-Garde: Working-Class Cinema in Los Angeles 6. The Idea of the Amateur 7. The Forties: Wizards of the Id, Maya Deren and Her Acolytes 8. Minor Cinemas: Institutions of the Avant-Garde 9. Film and the Other Arts 10. Minority Cinemas: Film and Identity Politics in the Seventies 11. Narrating Los Angeles: Art Films and Independent Features 12. Documenting Southern California: Structural Film and Landscape Notes Acknowledgments of Permissions Index

2005

Scholarly & Professional

384/.8/0979494

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