Los Angeles' Ethnic Cinemas
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...
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Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences
2024-04-01
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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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| spelling | doaj.art-3d98b23464a84209b14ac913661d2b812024-04-08T12:07:16ZengInstitute of Art of the Polish Academy of SciencesKwartalnik Filmowy0452-95022719-27252024-04-0112510.36744/kf.2381Los Angeles' Ethnic CinemasNichole Neuman0Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 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. https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/kf/article/view/2381Los Angelescinema historymovie theatersethnic cinemasGerman film historyGerman American |
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| title | Los Angeles' Ethnic Cinemas |
| title_full | Los Angeles' Ethnic Cinemas |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Los Angeles' Ethnic Cinemas |
| title_short | Los Angeles' Ethnic Cinemas |
| title_sort | los angeles ethnic cinemas |
| topic | Los Angeles cinema history movie theaters ethnic cinemas German film history German American |
| url | https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/kf/article/view/2381 |
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