Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to Nixon

Genres

Ghost Metropolis is built from many genres, textual and visual:  

Textual Genres
     Narrative Essays
           Prose essays that narrate, analyze, and interpret the past.
     Narrative Paths
           Sequential collections of narrative essays that tell larger stories.
     Social Science Essays
           Findings from systematic research using falsifiable methods to generalize about social conditions and processes.

Visual Genres
     Photographs
          Still images recorded to photosensitive films and digital devices.
     Panoramas 
          Sweeping views of multiple directions from a single camera position. 
     Diptychs
           Paired images, the combination of which constitutes a visual statement.
     Montages
          Assemblages of photographs, often with graphic arts and cartography.
     Maps
           Pictorial cartography, including historic, archival maps, and maps by the author.
     Cartography
           Ghost Maps
           Thematic Maps
           Motion Cartography  (eg)
           Animated Maps  (eg)
           Transections

      Video
            All motion pictures.
      Audio
            All recorded sound apart from moving images.

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