Race and Place: Hollywood’s Vision of Urban Youth in Los Angeles Film

This paper examines films about youth of the late 1980s and 1990s in Los Angeles. While focusing on the analytical categories of space and race, the paper underscores the importance of historicizing and contextualizing the genre. Thus, it stresses the significance of successive waves of different et...

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Main Authors: Marika Piday-Warren, David E. James
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Göttingen University Press 2010-05-01
Series:American Studies Journal
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Online Access:http://www.asjournal.org/archive/54/180.html