Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles

Contents

vii C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments ix Prologue 1 Introduction 5 PART I Original Si(g)n 1 The Ramona Myth 25 2 Ramona Revisited 43 PART II Si(g)n City 3 “City with Two Heads” 67 4 What Price Hollywood? 83 PART III L.A. Noir 5 Bright and Guilty Place 105 6 Neo-noir 126 PART IV Multicultural L.A. 7 LAtinos 153 8 bLAcks 170 9 LAsians 189 10 LAnglos and LAGBTs 209 Conclusion 233 Notes 243 Index 281 Contents v iii ...