EVERYBODY RIDES THE CAROUSEL (72 minutes, color, 16mm., super 8, videocassette, 1976). Produced by Faith and John Hubley. Distributed by Pyramid Films, Box 1048, Santa Monica, California 90406. Divided into three 24-minute sections: rental for each is $25; purchase, $350. Rental for entire film is $60; purchase, $900

1976 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 592-592
Author(s):  
Jack Neher
Keyword(s):  
Santa Monica

SYCAMORE CANYON FALLS: A BEDROCK-CONTROLLED KNICKPOINT IN THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Pinto ◽  
◽  
Daniel J. Holiday ◽  
Brandon J. Carignan ◽  
Roger L. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
Santa Monica Mountains ◽  
Santa Monica

The Ocean Run: Stage, Cast, and Performance in a Public Park Basketball Scene

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael DeLand
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Basketball Game ◽  
Santa Monica ◽  
And Performance

This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring “scene”—an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life—colloquially known as the “Ocean Run.” Drawing on Kenneth Burke’s dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted by the interrelation of the park’s socioecological landscape (“stage”), the diverse personal meanings that players construct through their participation (“cast”), and the practical work of re-creating the scene through situated interactions (“performance”). The park stage facilitates a sense of intimacy for players with very different personal relationships to each other and to the scene. Those players then actively mix themselves up, re-creating the scene through an “improvisational” style of team formation. Place, people, and action are dialectically related in the patterning of public life. This method of analysis is replicable in a wide variety of public scenes and sets up concrete grounds for comparison and theoretical generalizability.

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