Media, Information and Technoculture 3223F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lewis Mumford, Utopia, Lonelyhearts

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3223F/G
• Professor: Selma Purac

Document Summary

Fear factor(y): the day of the locust (1939) and episodes (2011) Oct 4: hollywood is two contradictory things at exactly the same time, consists of both dreams and nightmares, this is the way in which bruce chipman characterizes hollywood as well. Bru(cid:272)e chip(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:862)the pro(cid:373)ised la(cid:374)d(cid:863: construction of california as a promise land, a place that represents escape, rebirth, etc, focuses on the negative perspective of this idea, these ideals did not match reality, ex. California gold rush: promise and peril, few individuals actually succeeded, vast majority were left disappointed, association between california and despair/bitterness, expectations did not match reality, california became construed as a space of disillusionment. If you spend too much time in the cinematic world, you can be disconnected from reality: holl(cid:455)(cid:449)ood"s a(cid:373)(cid:271)iguit(cid:455, dream/nightmare, growth/decay, hope/despair, fertility/sterility, heaven/hell. In the text, hollywood is presented to us as a pastiche: tod describes the landscape of hollywood as a pastiche of different styles of buildings.