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

2. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies Movies vs. TV: L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) versus The Shield (FX, 2002- 2008)L.A. ConfidentialThe Shield Movies vs. Television

3. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You cant ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You cant 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. … Its time to demythologize an era and build a new myth from the gutter to the stars. Its time to embrace bad men and the price they paid to secretly define their time. Heres to them. James Ellroy, American Tabloid Movies vs. Television

4. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies L.A. ConfidentialL.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) Movies vs. Television

5. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)Curtis Hanson Movies vs. Television

6. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) Movies vs. Television Kevin Spacey as Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes

7. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) Movies vs. Television Russell Crowe as Officer Wendell "Bud" White

8. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) Movies vs. Television Guy Pearce as Det. Lt. Edmund "Ed" Exley

9. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) Movies vs. Television James Cromwell as Capt. Dudley Smith

10. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) Movies vs. Television Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken

11. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) Movies vs. Television Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgens

12. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The ShieldThe Shield (FX, 2002- 2008) Movies vs. Television

13. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television Created by Shawn RyanShawn Ryan

14. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television Michael Chiklis as Lt. Vic Mackey

15. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television Walton Goggins as Detective Shane Vendrell

16. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television Jay Carnes as Detective Holland Wagenbach

17. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television C. C. H. Pounder as Lt. Charlotte Weems

18. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television Benito Martinez as Captain David Aceveda

19. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television Glenn Close as Captain Monica Rawling

20. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television Forest Whitaker as Lt. Jon Kavanaugh

21. ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Movies vs. Television Shield writer and creator/showrunner of Sons of Anarchy