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Noir and Urban Transformation in LA by aussteiger is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) The document discusses how film noir and neo noir films have historically mapped the spatial transformations of Los Angeles throughout the 20th century. 2) It describes how Los Angeles shifted from a modernist centripetal urban model to a postmodern centrifugal model in the 1970s, reflected in neo noir films of the era like The Long Goodbye and Chinatown. 3) These neo noir films offered a representational correction to the disorienting effects of postmodernity by establishing new coordinates to navigate
- Author
- aussteiger
- Language
- EN