Review Essay: Modern Urban Planning and the Civic Imagination: Historiographical Perspectives on Los Angeles

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-251
Author(s):  
Sarah Schrank
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Review Essay

scholarly journals Through the looking glass on Cuba

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Jean Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
State Resistance

[First paragraph]State Resistance to Globalisation in Cuba. Antonio Carmona Báez. Sterling VA: Pluto Press, 2004. vii + 264 pp. (Paper US$ 29.95)La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami. Miguel A. de la Torre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xi + 181 pp. (Paper US$ 21.95)By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys in and out of Exile. María de los Angeles Torres (ed.). Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 2003. vii + 192 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society. Rafael Hernández. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. vii + 145 pp. (Cloth US$ 24.95)In the politically charged world of scholarship on Cuba, it is salutary to comment in one review essay on four quite different volumes, each complementing the others. Three are single-authored, two on island Cuba (by Antonio Carmona Báez and Rafael Hernández) and one on Miami (by Miguel A. de la Torre). All three draw on theory and concepts and are male-authored and place-centric (Cuba/Miami). The fourth (by María de los Angeles Torres) is an edited collection of the personal testimonies of women seeking a place in between the hardened politics of Cuba and Miami.

In This Most Perfect Paradise: Alberti, Nicholas V, and the Invention of Conscious Urban Planning in Rome, 1447-1455, by Carroll W. Westfall, Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: A Portrait of a Society, by Peter Partner, The German Community in Renaissance Rome. 1378-1523. by Clifford W. Maas, edited by Peter Herde and Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome: Humanists and Churchmen on the Eve of the Reformation by John F. D’AmicoIn This Most Perfect Paradise: Albert;, Nicholas V, and the Invention of Conscious Urban Planning in Rome. 1447-1455. by Carroll W. Westfall. University Park, Pa., Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974. xvi, 228 PP.Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: A Portrait of a Society. by Peter Partner. Berkeley. Los Angeles, and London. University of California Press. 1976. 241 pp.The German Community in Renaissance Rome. 1378-1523. by Clifford W. Maas, edited by Peter Herde. (Römische Quartalschrift fur christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte, 39. Supplementheft). Herder, Rome, Freiburg. and Vienna, 1981. xvi, 208 pp.Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome: Humanists and Churchmen on the Eve of the Reformation by John F. D'Amico. Baltimore and London. by Johns Hopkins University Press. 1983. xviii, 331 pp. $24.00.

1984 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
Egmont Lee
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Reformation

The God in Science Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Eller
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
The Third ◽  
Close Encounters ◽  
Saturday Review

Bradbury’s successful 1977 stage adaptation of The Martian Chronicles with Terrence Shank and Paul Gregory opens chapter ten and leads into Bradbury’s fully realized understanding of Hamlet while attending Jack O’Brien’s production at San Diego’s Globe Theater. The chapter examines Bradbury’s influential Saturday Review essay “The God in Science Fiction,” which continues his exploration of the spiritual intersection between science and science fiction. His significant Los Angeles Times review of Close Encounters of the Third Kind embraced the film’s global spiritual implications. The chapter goes on to document Bradbury’s grief over the loss of friends Loren Eiseley, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, and his willingness to guarantee completion of Brackett’s Empire Strikes Back screenplay. She lived to complete it and acknowledge their enduring friendship.

Performance Review Essay: Japanese Theatre in Los Angeles

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-167
Author(s):  
Kevin Wetmore Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Performance Review

Review Essay: Los Angeles, City of Angels? No, City of Angles

Urban Studies ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gordon ◽  
Harry W. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Review Essay

Gods of the Golden Coast

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-85
Author(s):  
Edward J. Blum
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Folk Religion ◽  
Bible Belt ◽  
Grassroots Politics ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Plain Folk

Review essay on The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscapes; Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities; Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion; From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism; and Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church.

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