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Broadway as Background

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Describing Los Angeles’s geography in his history of the city’s avant-garde cinemas, David James notes how “over the city’s places are superimposed the shadows of their roles in old movies and new television shows”(James 9). The spaces, sidewalks, building facades, and marquees of South Broadway are more than just physical. In his seminal book The Production of Space, Marxist geographer Henri Lefebvre calls this spatial element, read through symbols and signs, ‘representational space.’ “Broadway as Background” uses films that have featured the historic theater district as a background to map the contours of its representational space.

Reading against the popular narrative of South Broadway as a street in decline, this section explores how perception may be affected by mediation and vice versa. This section gives a glimpse of the diversity of media histories that exist within, or are overlaid upon, the streetscape.

This page has paths:

  1. Broadway as Background Veronica Paredes

Contents of this path:

  1. Mexico lindo y querido
  2. Invisibility / Hypervisibility
  3. Everyday
  4. Main Video Gallery
  5. Appendix: Archival Photos
  6. Appendix: Chican@ Art
  7. Bibliography for Broadway as Background

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