Review: The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles, by Gary Krist

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Book Review| August 01 2020 Review: The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles, by Gary Krist Gary Krist. The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles. New York: Broadway Books, 2018. 416 pp. Hardcover $19.49. Vincent Brook Vincent Brook vincent brook, a native and current resident of Los Angeles, has a PhD in film and television and teaches at UCLA. He has authored or edited ten books, including several on Los Angeles: Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles (2013), Silver Lake Chronicles (2014), and Silver Lake Bohemia (2016). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2020) 97 (3): 225–227. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2020.97.3.225 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Vincent Brook; Review: The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles, by Gary Krist. California History 1 August 2020; 97 (3): 225–227. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2020.97.3.225 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentCalifornia History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions.2020California History Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.