Readings for today:
- Mike Davis, "Bunker Hill: Hollywood’s Dark Shadow," in eds. Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice, Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (Blackwell: 2001), pp. 33-45.
- John Strausbaugh, "Crime Was Weegee's Oyster," New York Times, June 20, 2008.
- FILM: Robert Siodmak, Criss Cross (1949)
- PHOTOS: Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig
- Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (1903).
- Barbara Mennel, "The Dark City and Film Noir: Los Angeles," in Cities and Cinema (Routledge: 2008), pp. 46-60.
- Mark Shiel, "A Regional Geography of Film Noir: Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen," in ed. Gyan Prakash, Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City (Princeton: 2010), pp. 75-103.
- Ed. Gyan Prakesh, Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City (Princeton University Press: 2010).
