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Preface: Movies, Metropolis, World

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For well over a century, mass media have transformed the cultural, economic, and political life of the human world.   Los Angeles has produced a commanding flow of the world's media from its beginning leadership of cinematic production circa 1915, to the present day.  Therefore--in a nearly perfect syllogism--Los Angeles must have had a major role in shaping the cultural, economic, and political life of the human world.  How it played that role, to what ends, are the crucial questions, to which these essays are dedicated.

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