L.A. is enormous. Whether you’re going to the beach, work, city, mountains or suburbs, people in Los Angeles use their cars as their main method of transportation. Due to this, a stigma has encompassed L.A. for a number of years that driving is the most brutal and painstaking part of the city. This has been […]

All Involved, by Ryan Gattis, is a novel set during the LA riots in 1992. For some background, the LA riots began after the beatings of Rodney King by the LAPD. The novel included a multitude of perspectives on this issue and how they continued their daily innocent lives during the riots.  Anthony Smiljanic, a […]

Mulholland Drive is well known to be one of the most bizarre and disjointed films of its time. David Lynch, the mastermind behind the film, portrays Hollywood as corrupt and twisted in a postmodern style. The elements of postmodernism in Mulholland Drive that stood out to me were hyperreality, pastiche, fragmentation, and irony. Hyperreality seemed […]

The genre noir and neo-noir is well captured by the films Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder, Chinatown by Roman Polanski, and Devil in a Blue Dress by Carl Franklin.  The first film entitled Double Indemnity is about Walter Neff, a successful insurance salesman, who gets taken advantage of by his client’s wife named Phyllis Dietrichson. […]

The famous Bradbury Building located in downtown Los Angeles is world-renowned and highly valued for the movies that have taken place there. KCET described the Bradbury building in a perfect manner; “Any work of the Bradbury Building’s distinction, splendor, and sheer cost will get people telling stories.” This statement is exemplified by the number of […]

I am convinced Hollywood is the biggest facade in the world. My whole life, I’ve grown up knowing the fact it’s definitely got a superficial layer over it consisting of red carpets, cameras, and TMZ. I think the glamour of Hollywood comes from years and years of people faking it and the high stress that […]

For the film assignment, my group and I chose “La La Land.” As a group, we came to a consensus on this movie because we all love musicals. I think this movie overall does a great job in the depiction of Hollywood because it gives it in two different aspects. The first aspect is the […]

From a young age, I have always had a unique fascination with Los Angeles, stemming from media influence. Whether it was watching my brother game on Grand Theft Auto, a video game that artificially created a free-roam of L.A., or spending hours on the couch with friends binging La La Land, Beverly Hills Cop and San […]