Description: Lecture, four hours. Focus on women writers and filmmakers who live in and write about Los Angeles. Ranging personal essay, memoir, science fiction, romantic comedy, sitcom, and documentary, writers and filmmakers encountered linger and loiter in L.A.'s neighborhoods and their communities that expand, complicate, and enrich what we think we know about City of Angels. Students become particularly attuned to how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class inform one's orientation to and mobility within L.A. Study of history of L.A., from its more visible areas like Hollywood or Beverly Hills to its edges and outlying spaces like San Fernando Valley, Inland Empire, and East L.A. Students think critically about how women's accounts of living in, or visiting, L.A. have contributed to and intervened within stories city tells about itself. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 5.0