ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies Movies vs. Television August 13, 2013.

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)

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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)

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Kevin Spacey as Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes

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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)

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Russell Crowe as Officer Wendell "Bud" White

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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)

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Guy Pearce as Det. Lt. Edmund "Ed" Exley

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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)

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James Cromwell as Capt. Dudley Smith

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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)

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Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken

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L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)

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Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgens

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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Created by Shawn Ryan

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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Michael Chiklis as Lt. Vic Mackey

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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Walton Goggins as Detective Shane

Vendrell

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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Jay Carnes as Detective Holland

Wagenbach

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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C. C. H. Pounder as Lt. Charlotte Weems

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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Benito Martinez as Captain David

Aceveda

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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Glenn Close as Captain Monica

Rawling

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The Shield (FX, 2002-2008)

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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