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This is an exciting book that provides a fresh take on both a familiar genre, and familiar city. Maher manages to make the familiar unfamiliar, creating an alternative history of both LA as a city of our imagination, and Film Noir as the location for this. -Jane Roscoe, The London Film School

In order to move between film studies, urban geography and social theory, Maher develops an argument that shows considerable conceptual agility in its capacity to move across worlds to propose that the history of representing LA in film marks a transition in itself from the modern to the postmodern, and from the real to the hyperreal. Professor Terry Flew, University of Sydney, Australia

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Dr Sean Maher is Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. He has been a been Visiting Scholar at UCLA Film and Television Archives. He is an Australian representative on the Steering Committee for the Filmmakers Research Network (FRN), a British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant investigating filmmaking-based research. As a writer and director, he has produced essay films on Los Angeles and film noir as part of investigating creative practice-based research (Maher, S. and Kerrigan S, (2016) Noirscapes: Using the screen to write Los Angeles noir as urban historiography in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice).

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