ARTAmita BhattThomas LawsonLaida LertxundiBrittany NeimethGala Porras-KimMark A
ESSAYSLucas MannElise AndersonJohanna SkibsrudEric NewmanNate Sloan and Charlie HardingSara DavisAlex ScordelisMasha Tupitsyn
POETRYTina ChangMegan PintoKatie PetersonJessica AbughattasJane HuffmanShangyang Fang
HUMANITIES & CULTURESheri-Marie HarrisonYxta Maya MurrayKeeanga-Yamahtta TaylorKaya Genç Benjamin Aldes WurgaftSteph Cha
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Chapter One: “Sunshine or Noir?” ARTAmita BhattThomas LawsonLaida LertxundiBrittany NeimethGalaSunshine or Noir? is the opening chapter of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso, 1990) by the late communist historian Mike Davis. In what Davis calls his master dialectic of L. A., sunshine and noir represent the forces of capitalist interest in Los Angeles and the intellectual community of writers, critics, immigrants, and filmmakersa fantastic convergence of American tough guy realism, Weimar expressionism, and