Paul Mason Fotsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Mason Fotsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Mason |
| FAMILY NAME | Fotsch |
| SIGNATURE | FOTSCH P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Monterey Bay |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Film Noir and Automotive Isolation in Los Angeles
This essay examines the emergence of a now dominant transportation system through the critical perspective of film noir. In the 1940s, Los Angeles began redesigning itself to better accommodate the automobile. At the same time, two films by Billy Wilder provided a subtle critique of this accommodation. The criminality of Double Indemnity (1944) depends on the same fantasy in technical rationality that legitimized highway planning. Sunset Boulevar…
Tourism’s uneven impact
The Politics of Neighbors
The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town. By Andrew Ross. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. 352 pages. $25.05 (cloth). Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity. Edited by Joan Copjec and Michael Sorkin. New York: Verso, 1999. 312 pages. $83.50 (cloth). $28.00 (paper). DESPITE THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH THE LIMITS OF PHYSICAL PROXIMITY CAN NOW BE transcended--through telephones, fax machines, …
Contesting Urban Freeway Stories: Racial Politics and the O. J. Chase
This article first considers how the O. J. Simpson freeway chase, the popular film Speed and television programmes such as Cops help construct the space of the automobile and freeway as a shelter from racially marked urban dangers, supporting deeply racialized politics in the United States. This politics is exemplified by the success of large capital interests in aligning themselves with the white working and middle class to form what Thomas and …
Contesting Urban Freeway Stories: Racial Politics and the O. J. Chase
This article first considers how the O. J. Simpson freeway chase, the popular film Speed and television programmes such as Cops help construct the space of the automobile and freeway as a shelter from racially marked urban dangers, supporting deeply racialized politics in the United States. This politics is exemplified by the success of large capital interests in aligning themselves with the white working and middle class to form what Thomas and …
The Politics of Neighbors
The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town. By Andrew Ross. New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. 352 pages. $25.05 (cloth). Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity. Edited by Joan Copjec and Michael Sorkin. New York: Verso, 1999. 312 pages. $83.50 (cloth). $28.00 (paper). DESPITE THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH THE LIMITS OF PHYSICAL PROXIMITY CAN NOW BE transcended--through telephones, fax machines, …
Tourism’s uneven impact
Film Noir and Automotive Isolation in Los Angeles
This essay examines the emergence of a now dominant transportation system through the critical perspective of film noir. In the 1940s, Los Angeles began redesigning itself to better accommodate the automobile. At the same time, two films by Billy Wilder provided a subtle critique of this accommodation. The criminality of Double Indemnity (1944) depends on the same fantasy in technical rationality that legitimized highway planning. Sunset Boulevar…
Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)