The Making of Regional Film Economies: Why La. Is Not L.A.
Vicki Mayer
Chapter from the book: Mayer, V. 2017. Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy.
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Chapter from the book: Mayer, V. 2017. Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy.
The aura of a local film economy in New Orleans can be traced to the first two decades of the twentieth century, when local boosters and traveling movie crews spun tales of heroic film entrepreneurs and fed fantasies of creative economic development. This aura obscured both the fledgling industry’s search for cheap land and labor, as well as speculators’ greed and graft. In the end, the local politics of race, labor, and class interfered with the efforts of the early film colonizers, who headed to Southern California.
Mayer, V. 2017. The Making of Regional Film Economies: Why La. Is Not L.A.. In: Mayer, V, Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.25.c
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Published on Feb. 24, 2017