Title & Author:

Looking for Los Angeles : architecture, film, photography, and the urban landscape / edited by Charles G. Salas and Michael S. Roth.

Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, ©2001.

Description:

ix, 329 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Issues & debates

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Autopia" (1973) and passages from "The languages of images" (1987) / Cees Nooteboom -- Ghost neighborhoods: space, time, and alienation in Los Angeles / Philip J. Ethington -- "Where the working man is welcomed": working-class suburbs in Los Angeles, 1900-1940 / Becky M. Nicolaides -- Fugitive plans in the provisional city: slums and public housing in Los Angeles / Dana Cuff -- Photographic mistakes on a gangster holiday / Susan A. Phillips -- Segments from "Along Alameda looking east" / Robbert Flick -- Broadacre in Brentwood? The politics of architectural aesthetics / Harold Zellman and Roger Friedland -- Photography, architecture, and the coming to oneself: Edmund Teske and Frank Lloyd Wright / Thomas S. Hines -- Hollywood's Los Angeles: two paradigms / Robert Carringer -- An impossible cinema? The Proletarian Avant-Garde in Los Angeles / David E. James -- The everyday imagery of space in Los Angeles / Jérôme Monnet.

Summary:

In Looking for Los Angeles 12 contributors present their responses to the world's newest major city. A variety of perspectives and approaches are covered. The text balances the importance of place with the importance of culture.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0892366168 (pbk.)
9780892366163 (pbk.)

Subject:

Arts, American California Los Angeles 20th century.
Architecture California Los Angeles History.
City planning California Los Angeles History 20th century.
Arts américains Californie Los Angeles 20e siècle.
Architecture Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
Architecture
Arts, American
City planning
Kongress
Architektur
Film
Stadtlandschaft
Filmwirtschaft
Städtebau
Architecture États-Unis Los Angeles (Calif.)
Art États-Unis Los Angeles (Calif.)
Urbanisme États-Unis Los Angeles (Calif.)
Vie artistique États-Unis Los Angeles (Calif.) 20e siècle.
Città pianificazione urbanistica Los Angeles.
Architecture California Los Angeles 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilization.
California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Los Angeles <Calif.>
Los Angeles (Calif.) Stadtlandschaft Film Architektur Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Salas, Charles G.
Roth, Michael S., 1957-
Getty Research Institute
Issues & debates.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219090
Call No.: NX511.L67 L6 2001
Status: Available