Los Angeles' Ethnic Cinemas

Autor: Nichole Neuman
Jazyk: English<br />Polish
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Kwartalnik Filmowy, Iss 125 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0452-9502
2719-2725
DOI: 10.36744/kf.2381
Popis: The author investigates ethnic movie theatres in Los Angeles in the mid-20th century, situating them in the city’s cinema landscape. By tracing the history of the LA German-language theatre, the La Tosca Filmbühne, she highlights how the cinema attempted to create a community of Germanness through its exhibition practices. She positions the audiences’ draw to these movie theatres in the context of Alison Landsberg’s notion of prosthetic memory, regarding the films screened there as evoking images and reminiscences of the viewers’ home countries. Through extensive archival research, the author also highlights the other Angeleno ethnic cinemas – Spanish language cinemas in particular – to examine what role foreign language theatres played in the cinemagoing communities of immigrant populations.
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