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The most typical avant-garde : history and geography of minor cinemas in Los Angeles

Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of independent cinemas: avant-garde and art cinema, ethnic and industrial films. This panoramic history of film production outside the commercial studio system reconfigures Los Angeles, rather than New York, as the true centre of avant-garde cinema in the US

eBook, English, ©2005
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2005