Most Typical Avant-Garde History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles

Name: Most Typical Avant-Garde History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9780520242586

ISBN-10: 0520242580

ISBN-13: 9780520242586

Edition: 2005

Authors: David E. James

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Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of independent cinemas: avant-garde and art cinema, ethnic and industrial films, pornography, documentaries, and many other far-flung corners of film culture. This glorious panoramic history of film production outside the commercial studio system reconfigures Los Angeles, rather than New York, as the true center of avant-garde cinema in the United States. As he brilliantly delineates the cultural perimeter of the film business from the earliest days of cinema to the contemporary scene, David James argues that avant-garde and minority filmmaking in Los Angeles has in fact beentheprototypical attempt to create emancipatory and progressive culture.…

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 540
Size: 7.05" wide x 10.00" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Avant-Garde Cinemas in Los Angeles



The Twenties: Avant-Garde in Hollywood



Hollywood Extras: A Great Tradition in Avant-Garde Cinema



The Thirties: Avant-Garde in the Industry



An Impossible Avant-Garde: Working-Class Cinema in Los Angeles



The Idea of the Amateur



The Forties: Wizards of the Id, Maya Deren and Her Acolytes



Minor Cinemas: Institutions of the Avant-Garde



Film and the Other Arts



Minority Cinemas: Film and Identity Politics in the Seventies



Narrating Los Angeles: Art Films and Independent Features



Documenting Southern California: Structural Film and Landscape


Notes


Acknowledgments of Permissions


Index