scholarly journals Miasto niekończącej się tułaczki. Pejzaż Los Angeles w twórczości filmowej Michaela Manna

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Wojciech Sitek
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
The World ◽  
Abandoned Spaces

DOI 10.24917/20837275.9.4.2W Los Angeles, przestrzeni ciągłej podróży, wątpliwą ostoję dla znużonych nomadów wyznaczają wyłącznie pokoje hotelowe, niewyposażone domy i centra handlowe. Terytorium miasta jest zaś wytyczane przez labirynty dróg, torów kolejowych i pasów startowych, które stanowią z jednej strony drogę ucieczki z metropolii, z drugiej zaś częstokroć prowadzą z powrotem do opuszczanej przestrzeni. Namysł nad ekranową konstrukcją ponowoczesnego miasta jest elementem analizy czasów niekończącej się tułaczki, charakteryzującej dynamiczny ekosystem współczesności.A city of neverending wandering. Landscape of Los Angeles in the film work of Michael MannIn Los Angeles, the space of constant travel, the dubious refuge for tired nomads are hotel rooms, unfurnished houses, and shopping centers. The city’s territory is defined by a labyrinth of roads, railroads, and runways. They allow to escape from the metropolis but they often lead back to the abandoned spaces. A study of representation of the postmodern city is an element of the analysis of the world of endless wandering which characterizes the dynamic ecosystem of the present day.

News and Notes

1980 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 197-200
Author(s):  
D. Bruce Marshall
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
World Economy ◽  
International Studies ◽  
French Politics ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
The World

The Conference Group on French Politics and Society organized two panels on the theme: The International Economic Crisis – The French Response which were held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in Los Angeles on March 21-22, 1980. Chaired by Peter Gou rev itch (UC San Diego), the panelists considered some of the various solutions which the French Government and major interest groups have developed to cope with the troubles that persist in the world economy.

Alternative energy capital of the world? Fix, risk, and solar energy in Los Angeles’ urban periphery

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110543
Author(s):  
Sean F Kennedy ◽  
Ryan Stock
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Energy Infrastructure ◽  
The World

California is one of the most climate-challenged regions of North America and is considered the vanguard of climate action in the United States. California's climate policy framework has strongly promoted the expansion of renewable energy infrastructure, and the state generates more solar energy than any other in the nation. Using the case of Lancaster, a city of 170,000 residents in northern Los Angeles County seeking to position itself as the “alternative energy capital of the world,” this article examines private investments in solar energy infrastructure as a response to California's entwined economic and ecological crises. Drawing on recent scholarship on socioecological fix, we argue that private accumulation through renewable energy infrastructures in California has required both the presence of crisis conditions and innovations in financial risk mitigation that manage tensions between mobility and fixity inherent in the formation of fixed capital. However, a narrow focus on short-term financial risk obviates other forms of risk, including future impacts of extreme weather on grid infrastructure and electricity supply. While this does not foreclose opportunities for solar energy infrastructure to support positive social and ecological transformation, we argue that such opportunities may be constrained under a mode of energy transition predicated on private accumulation.

Fear and wonderment in a limitless world: Learning to write from a child’s point of view

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Deese
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Young People ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Child Characters ◽  
The World

During my 25 years working as a screenwriter in Los Angeles, I developed a reputation as a writer who could craft vivid and believable scripts about young people. Initially, this was based on my teleplay for the first episode of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories series, and later for the semi-autobiographical Josh and S.A.M. released by Columbia Pictures. I also wrote uncredited revisions of DreamWorks’s Small Soldiers and Castle Rock’s Alaska, both involving prominent child characters. I have to confess that my reputation for writing content for children and adolescents realistically did not stem from any natural ability. It came from mining my personal childhood memories, and from studying movies and literature I felt authentically captured what it is like to be new in the world. This text explores my journey writing from a child’s perspective.

A Conversation and Two Epilogues

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Malloy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Real Time ◽  
York City ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Main Street ◽  
The World ◽  
As If

When Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz arrived in Telluride for Tele-Community in the summer of 1993, it seemed as if the whole town joined them on Main Street, as using slow scan video they connected townspeople and visiting digerati with artists, universities, and cultural centers around the world. Their Electronic Café had already presented New York City pedestrians with display windows of people waving and talking real time from Los Angeles (...

Criminal Undertakings: Nicolas Winding Refn, European Film Aesthetics, and Hollywood Genre Cinema

2019 ◽  
pp. 370-377
Author(s):  
Björn Nordfjörd
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Crime Film ◽  
Box Office ◽  
American Films ◽  
The World ◽  
Gangster Film ◽  
Film Aesthetics

This chapter explores Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. Refn’s first feature Pusher (1996) was a local box-office success that helped usher in the era of the Nordic crime film, which includes his own follow-up Bleeders (1998) and two Pusher sequels (2004 and 2005). His American crime and gangster film, Drive (2011), is set in Los Angeles and is indebted to notable American classics of the genre. Reunited with Hollywood star Ryan Gosling, Refn continued to explore the international pedigree of the crime thriller in Only God Forgives (2013), where Gosling plays an American struggling to stay afloat in the Bangkok underworld. In Neon Demon (2016), Refn returns to Los Angeles, this time the world of fashion, where Hollywood gloss and European film aesthetics meet head-on. His three “American” films thus offer a striking blend of Hollywood genre and European art cinema traditions helping to explain their wildly mixed receptions.

Thirty-Two

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherri Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The World ◽  
Downtown Los Angeles ◽  
To Come

News of Barbara’s death at the age of twenty-nine shocks and saddens the world. Her parents—William and Rose—and family, besieged by reporters, hopelessly try to come to terms with their loss. This chapter revolves almost entirely around the aftermath of Barbara’s passing. In accordance with Barbara’s dying wish, her fans are given a final chance to say good-bye. Descriptions of her funeral and interment are then provided, including the unprecedented pandemonium that erupts as thousands mob her service in downtown Los Angeles. Barbara’s reflections upon her life, many of them disclosed a year before her passing, conclude the chapter.

Prologue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherri Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Film Studios ◽  
The World ◽  
Gossip Columns ◽  
Tremendous Impact

Providing an overview of the tumultuous life and stellar accomplishments of silent screen star Barbara La Marr, the Prologue begins with her emergence into newspaper headlines as notorious, teenaged Reatha Watson—-reported kidnapped at sixteen, banished from Los Angeles by juvenile authorities for being “too beautiful” at seventeen, and soon barred by film studios from working as an actress for her scandalous activities—-and ends with her death at twenty-nine. Barbara’s impressive careers as a dancer, in vaudeville, and as a screenwriter are touched upon. Her tremendous impact as a reigning silent screen actress is then spotlighted: how her volatile sex appeal, glamour, talent, meteoric film career, and predilection to live life on her own terms bewitched her peers and the world whilst her explosive private life continued playing out in gossip columns and newspaper headlines.

Human Rights Watch Arms Project—Chemical and Biological Weapons Program

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The World ◽  
Chemical And Biological Weapons

Human Rights Watch is the largest U.S.-based independent human rights organization. It conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world. Human Rights Watch (HRW) includes five divisions, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and the signatories of the Helsinki accords, and has four thematic projects: the Arms Project, the Women's Rights Project, the Children's Rights Project, and the Free Expression Project. HRW maintains offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Dushanbe, and Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch is a nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds.

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