City in Cameo: The Many Faces of Los Angeles in Cinema Ameta Bal New York might have Woody Allen, but Los Angeles has its own champions. While there are certain directors, namely Michael Mann, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Altman and Quentin Tarantino, who’ve proven themselves to be LA specialists, they aren’t the only ones who have implanted the city of Los Angeles as a supplementary character in their films. Following is a selection of movies that celebrate, scrutinize, criticize, romanticize and
the neighborhood of Los Feliz lives the famous land mark Griffith park. The creamy white building with three prominent black domes, attracts many men, women, and children, which includes locals and tourists. Since it is free admission, people of all social classes are welcome to take advantage and utilize it. Its location can allow it to be well suited for multiple purposes in which different types of people can utilize it for today. The Griffith park provides the Los Angeles area with the opportunity
HIV Many eyebrows raised late in 1979, when the then unkown HIV virus raised its ugly head. The first two cases of the rare cancer, Karposis Sarcoma was diagnosed in two homosexual men in N>Y>C. About the same time in Los Angeles, several cases of the rare infection, Pneumocytis cariini pneumonia were being treated. Incidences of these strange diseases and infections were sky-rocketting around the country. The disease was effecting mostly young gay men in their 30's. There was no official name for
Luis Rodriguez, the main character from the novel Always Running, went through multiple life-changing events that were unavoidable because Mexican’s socio-economic status at that time period. His lack of knowledge in certain situations provoked him to make consequential choices. Rodriguez faced death and dealt with complicated relationships, violence, and inequality at a young age. His emotions during these life-changing events molded him into an utterly wounded man internally, where he relied heavily
class. They soon made a short film entitled How To Be A Burglar and people began to take notice. Their next work, Uncensored Videos, was broadcast on cable, introducing them to a wider audience. After high school, Albert began taking classes at the Los Angeles Community College Film School. Two short films established the twins’ reputation as innovative filmmakers and allowed them to direct Menace II Society (1993), which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and grossed nearly 10 times
sidewalks—the black tar phlegm of old flattened bubblegum—squashed beneath the scraped soles of suited foot soldiers on salary. It is in the straddled stares of stubborn strangers. It is in the cancer-coated clouds that gloss the sweet-tooth sky of the Los Angeles Basin with bathtub scum sunsets rosier than any Homer finger-painted dawn. Like the treble yell of helpless children, ugliness is piercing, unavoidable, everywhere. Yet, some powerful pieces of literature, with the assistance of paroxysmal words
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'Boyz N the Hood.' John Daniel Singleton. The 34 year director, who was born January 6, 1968, in Los Angeles, CA. This black African-American director who won several awards as a screenwriting students at USC. Singleton's assured a directorial debut, Boyz N the Hood. An urgent, powerful coming-of-age tale, the film found a spark of hope amid its bleak, violence-ridden south central Los Angeles setting and become one the top-grossing feature ever made by a black filmmaker, because singleton
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team that is located in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Los Angeles Lakers is 16-time NBA champion team with their last champion win in 2010. I chose the Los Angeles Lakers Team because they are one of my favorite teams in the NBA, even though they did not make the playoffs this year. While growing up and still today, if the Lakers are playing
Westward movement is the populating of lands, by the Europeans, in what is now known as the United States. The chief resolution of the westward expansion is economic betterment. The United States story begins with westward expansion and even before the Revolutionary war, early settlers were migrating westward into what is now known as the states of Kentucky,Tennessee, parts of the Ohio Valley and the South. Westward Expansion was slowed down by the French and the Native Americans, however the Louisiana
Kody Dejohn Scott, a future infamous gang leader was born in south central Los Angeles, California in 1963. He was one of six children as his step father left his family in 1970. Kody suspected that his real father was actually NFL quarterback Dick Bass and felt that his step father never treated him like his real son because of that (Kody, 2008). Throughout Kody’s younger years his step father physically abused him and his family. With no father figure in his life and a broken home, Kody turned
When the West opened up to new settlers, it was a huge change for all. The West was home to not only people but an abundance of resources that impacted us economically. Moving to The West for people was either a win or lose, to say the least. It seemed as though the development of The West brought promises to benefit individuals but not all. One particular program known as the “The Homestead Act, that granted 160 acres of federal land to any applicant and improved the property” (Henretta 475) seemed
The Westward Expansion was an important and essential part of the United States growth during the nineteen centuries. The main contributor to this phenomenon was the settlers, agriculture and the construction of the railroad networks. Using this perspective, and through research the author of this paper will analyze the expansion during different decades in the 1800’s. All America benefited from the massive agri-business that has its roots in the West as well as the settling and the construction
Much contention and controversy have historically surrounded the idea that Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon (1952) is the single film that brought an end to what is commonly referred to as the “classical Western." Through a single crucial scene, one important character invokes the ancient advice lent by Aristotle in his seminal work, On Rhetoric, to persuade a town to turn on its hero and change the face of Western's forever. By adhering to the ancient philosopher's notion of ethos, pathos, and logos,
Peter Berg is an award winning director who has his own crazy style, but before he entered the film industry, he went to school at Macalester College, intending to play hockey. But then he discovered film and decided to be a world famous director. Not only is he a director, he is also a producer, writer, and actor. He first found work in the film industry as an actor. He his most remembered as an actor through his role as Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope. Since then, Berg has moved on to producing
The story of the United States has always been one of westward expansion, beginning along the East Coast and continuing, often by leaps and bounds until it included the Pacific. Theodore Roosevelt described this as “the great leap westward.” As early as 1751, Benjamin Franklin described a destiny for Americans to fill up new lands to the west, and Jefferson, Monroe and Adams all expressed expansionist dreams. The main causes for expansion was Manifest Destiny, economic opportunity, transportation
My primary research question is concerned with the circumstances, in 1915, that led to film production and financial success at the Flying ‘A’ studios in Santa Barbara, California under the leadership of Samuel S. Hutchinson. The success of the studio was thanks to the quality of their production choices, distribution network, and the publicity campaigns of their films. The three key individuals who excelled at performing these roles and that I believe personally led to the studio’s most successful
Max Dupian was born in Ashfield Sydney in 1911, he lived there all of his life, photographing the city from the late 1930’s through to just before his death in 1992. Dupian photographed the architecture, the landscape, the beaches and the cities of Australia. For many Australians, Dupains photographs define our beach culture, and it was the beach that was the inspiration for his most famous and enduring images including The Sunbaker, At Newport and Bondi all capture a moment in time. His 1937 photograph
Turner’s frontier offered an unshakeable ethnocentric and nationalistic view of western history. This is where New Social historians saw an opportunity to fashion a new, more diverse, more conclusive version of westward expansion. Turner’s key ideas of “The American West” and the “frontier” were transformed by a new generation of historians looking to challenge the status quo. One of the most technical problems concerning Turner’s methods was the fact that in studying the frontier, one
Throughout history, many great nations have amassed an immense empire through expansionism, which is a nation's practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion. The United States expansionism was present since it became an independent nation itself. Manifest Destiny, which is the belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable played a big role in expansionism in the mid 1800’s. The Louisiana purchase from France in 1803 for fifteen