Los Angeles <i>Noir</i> Narrative in Sam Shepard’s <i>Angel City</i>

YANG Jian-lin; FAN Yi-ting

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021110097

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YANG Jian-lin, FAN Yi-ting. Los Angeles Noir Narrative in Sam Shepard’s Angel City[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(3): 353-358. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021110097

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YANG Jian-lin, FAN Yi-ting. Los Angeles Noir Narrative in Sam Shepard’s Angel City[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(3): 353-358. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021110097

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Los Angeles Noir Narrative in Sam Shepard’s Angel City

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2021110097

School of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

Received Date: 2021-11-29
Publish Date: 2022-06-23

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Against the background of urban cultural transformation in the 1960s, the material and cultural corruption in Los Angeles came to be a focal point in American literature. In Angel City, contemporary American dramatist Sam Shepard employs Los Angeles noir narrative to deconstruct the traditional romantic myth of Los Angeles in terms of its environmental catastrophe and cultural decline, thus revealing the ecological crises and the Hollywood reproduction mode constricted by commercial capital. By so doing, the play delineates a disillusioned, post-apocalyptic human and social condition for the post-war Los Angeles as an urban space of economy and culture.
- Angel City,
- Sam Shepard,
- Los Angeles noir narrative,
- post-apocalyptic,
- Hollywood

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