Landscape in Motion
Nostalgia and Urban Redevelopment in Ed Ruscha’s Then & Now: Hollywood Boulevard, 1973-2004
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11108048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Reynolds (0009-0000-0259-332X, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1052-1072 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Urban History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0096-1442 • E-ISSN: 1552-6771 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0096144215602014 |
| OpenAlex | W2341151861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Ed Ruscha’s photo book Then & Now: Hollywood Boulevard, 1973-2004 consists of two continuous photographic panoramas of the north and south sides of the eponymous street taken thirty years apart. The juxtaposition of these two time periods depicts a dramatic transformation of the neighborhood, a result of the ongoing Hollywood Redevelopment Project (HRP). From its inception in 1986, the HRP has enlisted a nostalgic image of the city during the heyday of the film industry to mobilize redevelopment efforts. At first glance, Then & Now seems complicit in the HRP’s nostalgic enterprise. However, Ruscha’s book provides a device for rethinking the city’s renewal and the historical narratives that drive it. “Reading” this unusual text disrupts our relationship to “now” and “then,” problematizing nostalgia’s function as a condition of Hollywood’s revitalization and urban redevelopment more broadly
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Boulevard · Function (biology · Geography · Hollywood · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Reading (process · Redevelopment · Sociology · Urban regeneration · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Photography and Visual Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |