Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative
(2017)
Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. M. (2017). Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative. In J. Ward, & C. Miller (Eds.), Urban noir : New York and Los Angeles in shadow and light (53-70). Lanham, US: Rowman & Littlefield
Set in the late 1990s, against the backdrop of the Rampart scandal that impacted the LAPD, Oren Moverman's Rampart centres on a rogue, corrupt cop, Dave Brown, whose unwillingness to let go of the ‘old ways’ turns him into a perfect scapegoat for a d... Read More about Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative.