Abandoned Images Film and Film's End |
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| Author:
| Barber, Stephen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86189-645-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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Broadway avenue in downtown Los Angeles holds an extraordinary collection of twelve once-luxurious and now abandoned film-palaces, built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide, such a concentration of cinemas would have been demolished long ago - here however the buildings have survived the end of film-projection intact, some of their interiors ruined and gutted, others transformed and re-used as churches, nightclubs and storage spaces. Stephen Barber's
Abandoned Images:...
More DescriptionBroadway avenue in downtown Los Angeles holds an extraordinary collection of twelve once-luxurious and now abandoned film-palaces, built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide, such a concentration of cinemas would have been demolished long ago - here however the buildings have survived the end of film-projection intact, some of their interiors ruined and gutted, others transformed and re-used as churches, nightclubs and storage spaces. Stephen Barber's Abandoned Images: Film and Film's End begins with an exploration of these remarkable derelicts, and broadens to ask questions about the abandonment of film itself.