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Dr Pascal Cicchetti's Outputs (3)

Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative (2017)
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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). 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.