Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Brook
Author First Name:
Vincent
Pages:
320
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Edition:
None
ISBN 10:
081355456x
ISBN 13:
9780813554563
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Date Published:
1/1/2013
Genre:
Travel/Transportation
Description
Land of Smoke and Mirrors looks at greater Los Angeles through the images projected from within and without its geographical and psychological borders. Divided into sections that probe the city's checkered history and reflect on Hollywood's own self reflections, the book offers revealing readings of different types of texts (novelistic, cinematic, event-related, and geographical) to expose how Los Angeles, despite considerable remaining challenges, is blowing away some of the smoke of its not always proud past and rhetorically adjusting its rear-view mirrors.
