Chapter One: “Sunshine or Noir?” FICTIONAlla Gorbunova

FICTIONAlla Gorbunova

all to injuriously catastrophic effect

First published in 1922 and adapted to screen the following year by Rupert Hughes himself

translated by Gabi ReighJuliana Spahr

but I missed the process of using screens attached to wood frames

Chapter One: “Sunshine or Noir?” FICTIONAlla GorbunovaSunshine or Noir? is the opening chapter of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso, 1990) by the late communist historian Mike Davis. In what Davis calls his master dialectic of L. A., sunshine and noir represent the forces of capitalist interest in Los Angeles and the intellectual community of writers, critics, immigrants, and filmmakersa fantastic convergence of American tough guy realism, Weimar expressionism, and