Los Angeles Plays Itself

Of the cities in the world, few are depicted in and mythologized more in film and television than the city of Los Angeles. Examines in detail of the ways the city has been depicted, both when it is meant to be anonymous and when itself is the focus. Along the way, illustration of concerns of how the real city and its people are misrepresented and distorted through the prism of popular film culture. Furthermore, it is also a chronicle of the real stories of the city's modern history behind the notorious accounts of the great conspiracies that ravaged the city, that reveal a more open and yet darker past than the casual viewer would suspect.