The article focuses on how the US Department of Treasury became interested in a William Friedkin low budget cult movie, "To Live and Die in L.A." (1985), as well as how the director and the cast risked to get arrested for being too realistic in counterfeiting US currencies.

Hollywood’s Counterfeit: To (Re)Produce, Live, and Die in L.A / M.T. Soldani. - In: ARCHIVIO. - ISSN 2533-1043. - 2:(2018), pp. 124-133.

Hollywood’s Counterfeit: To (Re)Produce, Live, and Die in L.A

M.T. Soldani
2018

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The article focuses on how the US Department of Treasury became interested in a William Friedkin low budget cult movie, "To Live and Die in L.A." (1985), as well as how the director and the cast risked to get arrested for being too realistic in counterfeiting US currencies.
American cinema; New Hollywood; William Friedkin; realism; crime; power; Los Angeles
Settore PEMM-01/B - Cinema, fotografia, radio, televisione e media digitali
2018
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