Rediscovering L.A.

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This collection, entitled Rediscovering L.A., houses the culminating experience projects of the CSUN English 698D class from Spring 2015 semester. The anthology contains the individual writings from each member of the class, organized into chapters.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Sandra L. Stanley (page 5)
• City of Dreams/Hyperreal LA
• From Magic Milieu to Destructive Denizens: Examining Socio-Historical Shifts within Representations of Los Angeles in YA Literature by Wafa Azeem (page 17)
• From Bradbury to Butler: Los Angeles Science Fiction and the Aerospace Industry by Michael Dunbar (page 34)
• The Hyper-façade of Hollywood: Singing in the Rain, The Player, and Runaway Productions by Kimberly Lewis (page 57)
• Cartoons & Counterculture by Azure Star Glover (page 75)


• Waste & Renewal
• From the “Concrete River” to an “Urban Oasis”: An Analysis of the Appropriation of Environmental Language in the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan by Nami Hayashi Olgin (page 96)
• Navigating Affective Space: Representations of Los Angeles and the Freeway in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them and Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays by Evelyn Giebler (page 113)
• Waste Management in La-la Land: An Analysis of the Loaded Words Surrounding Sanitation in the City of Angels by Jessica Grosh (page 130)


• Outlaws and Dudes
• The Rhetoric of Surf: A Lexical and Archetypal Migration of Los Angeles Counterculture into Popular Culture by Steve Florian (page 154)
• The Subversive and Dynamic Language and Actions of LA Cannabis Films: Up in Smoke, Friday, and Pineapple Express by Johnny Straight (page 172)
• The Art of Graffiti as Inner-City Communication and as a means of Public Literacy by Ligia Lesko (page 185)


• South Central—Dominant and Counter Narratives
• The New Negro in Los Angeles: Representations of Identity in Bontemps’s God Sends Sunday and Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go by Jennifer Sanchez (page 203)
• The Rhetoric of Protests in Los Angeles Local News 1965-2014 by Emily Olson (page 221)
• Fashion Signs: How Fashion Shaped the Counter Narrative of Blacks in South Central Los Angeles by Shrece Usher (page 243)


• Diverse Voices/The Global Village
• Los Angeles Education Films and the Rhetoric of Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race To The Top by Bernie Sapir (page 260)
• Power and Ownership through Language: Students in LAUSD and Stand and Deliver by Ellen Moreh (page 283)
• Seeking the Next Saroyan: Cultural Representations of Armenian Americans of Los Angeles by Vana Derohanessian (page 301)
• At the Intersection of Deaf and Asian American Performativity in Los Angeles: Deaf West Theatre’s and East West Players’ Adaptations of Pippin by Stephanie Lim (page 324)

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