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La Bamba (1987), 95 , 109 –10

Lady for a Day (1936), 18 , 28

Lang, Fritz, 29 , 141

Langella, Frank, 240 , 253 fig.

Lardner, Ring, Jr., 312

The Last House on the Left (1972), 8 , 168 fig.;

antisuburban myth of, 167 –69;

plot line of, 164 ;

as uncredited remake, 162 , 163 ;

violence of, 164 –65, 169

The Last Laugh (1924), 243

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), 39 –40

Laugh track:

on M*A*S*H series, 316 , 318

Launder, Frank, 30

LaValley, Albert, 19 , 232 n10

Laven, Arnold, 30

Lee, Christopher, 240 , 255 –56, 257 fig., 268 , 270

Lee, Peggy, 102 fig., 104 , 109

Lee, Spike, 10

Lee, Stan, 292 –93n14

Legion of Decency, 19

Lehman, Peter, 9 , 126 –27n2, 330 , 331

Leone, Sergio, 29

Lesbianism. See Homosexuality

Lesser, Wendy, 68 n9

Lethal Weapon films, 76

Levant, Brian, 29

Levine, Lawrence, 285

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 287

Levy, Eugene, 112 n5

Lewis, Jerry, 95 , 104 , 112 n6

Lewis, Jerry Lee, 157 , 158

Lewis, Joseph H., 156

Linville, Larry, 320 , 323

Lipsitz, George, 20 , 24 , 28

Literary works:

cinematic allusions to, 133 ;

film adaptations of, 53 , 170 n3, 295 , 296 , 333 –34n2;

intertextuality of, 2 –3;

revisions of, 52 .

See also Novel, the

"Little Red Riding Hood," 139

A Little Romance (1979), 137

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), 29

Lloyd, David, 231

The Lodger (1927), 53 , 58

The Long Goodbye (1973), 112 n7

Lorre, Peter, 56 , 57 fig., 245

Lowell-Rich, David, 29

Lubitsch, Ernst, 28

Lucas, George, 193 , 280

Lucy, Autherine, 23

Luft, Sid, 83

Lugosi, Bela, 240 , 245 , 256 fig., 263 –64, 268

Luhr, William, 126 –27n2

Lumière and Company (1995, Lumière et Compagnie ), 10

Lumière brothers, 280

Lynch, David, 10 , 168

Lyon, Elizabeth, 233 n20