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The Most Typical Avant-Garde - History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (Paperback, New)
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The Most Typical Avant-Garde - History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (Paperback, New)
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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 been "the
"prototypical attempt to create emancipatory and progressive
culture.
Drawing from urban history and geography, local news reporting, and
a wide range of film criticism, James gives astute analyzes of
scores of films--many of which are to found only in archives. He
also looks at some of the most innovative moments in Hollywood,
revealing the full extent of the cross-fertilization the occurred
between the studio system and films created outside it. Throughout,
he demonstrates that Los Angeles has been in the aesthetic and
social vanguard in all cinematic periods--from the Socialist
cinemas of the early teens and 1930s; to the personal cinemas of
psychic self-investigation in the 1940s; to attempts in the 1960s
to revitalize the industry with the counterculture's utopian
visions; and to the 1970s, when African Americans, Asian Americans,
Latinos, women, gays, and lesbians worked to create cinemas of
their own. James takes us up to the 1990s and beyond to explore new
forms of art cinema that are now transforming the representation of
Southern California's geography.
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