engl 6750/7750 film studies movies vs. television august 13, 2013
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ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies
Movies vs.
Television
August 13, 2013
ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies
Movies vs. TV: L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) versus The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies
America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat
over and looked back with no regrets. You can’t ascribe our fall from
grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can’t lose what
you lacked at conception. Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up
for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive
politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of
great moral weight. Our continuing narrative is blurred past truth
and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight.
… It’s time to demythologize an era and build a new myth from the
gutter to the stars. It’s time to embrace bad men and the price they
paid to secretly define their time. Here’s to them.
James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Movies vs. Television
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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Movies vs. Television
ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Movies vs. Television
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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Movies vs. Television
Kevin Spacey as Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes
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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Movies vs. Television
Russell Crowe as Officer Wendell "Bud" White
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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Movies vs. Television
Guy Pearce as Det. Lt. Edmund "Ed" Exley
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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Movies vs. Television
James Cromwell as Capt. Dudley Smith
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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Movies vs. Television
Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken
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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
Movies vs. Television
Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgens
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
Created by Shawn Ryan
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
Michael Chiklis as Lt. Vic Mackey
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
Walton Goggins as Detective Shane
Vendrell
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
Jay Carnes as Detective Holland
Wagenbach
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
C. C. H. Pounder as Lt. Charlotte Weems
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
Benito Martinez as Captain David
Aceveda
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
Glenn Close as Captain Monica
Rawling
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
Forest Whitaker as Lt. Jon Kavanaugh
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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)
Movies vs. Television
Shield writer and creator/showrunner of Sons of Anarchy