Author

Publication

2017 - University of California Press, Oakland, California, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

40,500 words, Guess

Page Count

162 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivealmosthollywoodn0000maye
  • ISBN-139780520293816
  • ISBN-139780520967175
  • ISBN-100520293819
  • ISBN-100520967178
and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016046883
  • OCLC Control Number960832727
  • Better World Books9780520293816
  • Better World Books9780520967175
  • Open LibraryOL28358693M

Classifications

  • LCCPN1993.5.U744M39
  • LCCPN1993.5.U744 M39 2017

Description

Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such a policy? Why would citizens accept the policy’s uncomfortable effects on their economy and culture? Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans addresses these questions through a study of the local and everyday experiences of the film economy in New Orleans, Louisiana—a city that has twice taken the mantle of becoming a movie production capital. From the silent era to today’s Hollywood South, Vicki Mayer explains that the aura of a film economy is inseparable from a prevailing sense of home, even as it changes that place irrevocably.

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