a journal of cities and culture
Joshua Glick’s Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 (2018, University of California Press) offers a magnificent excavation of the city’s documentary production cultures. Importantly, the project explores how the city’s films and television programs made a …
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Cartography, landscape, and cinema can be conceptualized through products and practices, inscriptionsand incorporations, visuality and montage. A geographic approach to research on Old Tucson is a (re)construction project, one that aims to inform the formation of the Sonoran Westerns landscape. …
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Between the 1950s and the 1990s, dozens of Hollywood productions traveled to Old Tucson Studios, an isolated production facility a few miles past the outskirts of Tucson, largely to shoot Westerns. Why journey 500 miles away, at considerable expense, to …
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