La Haine: Your Right, Our City Within a twenty-hour period, the characters of La Haine battle a private and a collective disruption. As day becomes night, three men鈥檚 desire to resist police鈥
Urban Alienation and the Night in Crash (1996) Introduction David Cronenberg鈥檚 1996 film Crash follows a cast of characters who commune over their shared sexual fantasies surrounding car crashes. Based on J鈥
Getting Out, Getting Lost A Formal Analysis of Lost in Translation (2003) Introduction The notion of 鈥榞etting lost鈥 is the occurrence of an individual losing their spatial reference, which consists of two elements: the feeling of鈥
Cityscape of Trash : The Nocturnal Tokyo of Tokyo Godfathers (2003) by Satoshi Kon Introduction Tokyo Godfathers is a film about waste, human resolution, and the night. Directed by Satoshi Kon and released in 2004, it is a Christmas film and鈥
Staging Utopia: Queer Performance in Tangerine Toyland, toyland / Little girl and boy land While you dwell within it / You are ever happy there Childhood's joy land / Mystic merry toyland Once you pass its鈥
Surviving Los Angeles by Exercising Privacy In queer film and television, the urban context often serves as a backdrop for portraying LGBTQ+ culture. In Sean Baker鈥檚 2015 film 鈥淭angerine鈥, set in the鈥
