Los Angeles in Film - Lakeview Terrace

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of Anglophone Studies), course: Los Angeles in Film, language: English, abstract: This research paper will try to outline what typical features about Los Angeles are disclosed within the movie Lakview Terrace, in how far it utters critique and which general impression about LA is presented. It will in detail look at the presentation of the Los Angeles police force, racial problems and the always imminent threat of natural disaster, in this case represented by a forest fire that is blazing its trail towards the Lakeview Terrace neighborhood.