{"id":2373,"date":"2014-08-20T07:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2014-08-20T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:33:09","slug":"los-angeles-the-city-in-cinema-repo-man-alex-cox-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles, the City in Cinema: Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0ZMJ73arBo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<em>Los Angeles, the City in Cinema<\/em>, my new series of video essays,\u00a0examines the variety of Los Angeleses revealed in the films set there, both those new and old, mainstream and obscure, respectable and schlocky, appealing and unappealing \u2014 just like the city itself. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/p0ZMJ73arBo\">Its debut<\/a> pays a visit to the punks, drunks, thugs, loners, feds, and aliens \u2014 all driving cars, and rarely the flashy kind \u2014 that populate the 24-hour industrial Los Angeles of Alex Cox&#8217;s own 1984 debut, <em>Repo Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, the City in Cinema, my new series of video essays,\u00a0examines the variety of Los Angeleses revealed in the films set there, both those new and old, mainstream and obscure, respectable and schlocky, appealing and unappealing \u2014 just like the city itself. Its debut pays a visit to the punks, drunks, thugs, loners, feds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-los-angeles","category-the-city-in-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}