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

by David E. James

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242580
• ISBN13: 9780520242586
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 10.0"