California Written by Kevin Starr

By: Danielle Dye

Chapter 11 An Imagined Place:Art and Life on the Coast of Dreams

Films were starting to be made in Los Angeles because of the nice moving makin weather

The count of monte cristo (1908) outside scenes where filmed in L.A.

In the Sultan’s Power (1908) was the first movie completely filmed there

The Roman (1908), Carmen(1908) & many more to come

DeMille & Griffith became iconic Hollywood directors

During the 1920’-1930’s major film studios were establishing themselves: Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, & Columbia

Chapter 11 An Imagined Place:Art and Life on the Coast of Dreams•Photography in the

twentieth century seemed to stray away from the purely photographic values for more pictorial styles equivalent to postimpressionism in painting

•Group f/64 was focused on restoring photography

Chapter 11 An Imagined Place:Art and Life on the Coast of Dreams• Music: • San Francisco had a musical

tradition that back to the gold rush

• Around 1849• By 1870’s San Francisco was

supporting a flourishing theatrical and musical culture

• Sustained for 50 years San Francisco’s claim to be the performing Arts capital of the Far East

• 1919 a philharmonic orchestra was established under the direction of Alfred Hertz

• 1930’s Sound came to motion pictures, a whole new career field

Chapter 12 “Ecumenopolis”Forging a world society

By Danielle Dye

• When a group of Los Angeles Policemen stopped another black motorist; Rodney king

• & beat him so severely that he was hospitalized

• 56 baton blows overall • It was evident that

race was still a issue in L.A.

Riots By Danielle Dye

• While the Watts riots of august 1965 were black vs. white

• The L.A. riots of April-May 1992 were blacks and browns against whites and Koreans

• Their stores were the special targets for looting and arson

Immigration & issues By Danielle Dye

• 1990’s had been wrenching • Even heartbreaking in the hostile

undertones• And reverberation of proposition

187• The issue of just how the stat

should respond to undocumented Californians

• The majority of them Latino still remains a continuing question

Economy depends on immigrants doing jobs other will not

2003 Governor Gary Davis, fighting recall

Issued driver’s licenses to undocumented workers by signing a bill

Chapter 13: Arnold! “Stewarship or Squandered Legacy”

By Danielle Dye

• 2003 voters of California recalled one governor and elected another

• Some cause might have been”

• An energy crisis• Crushing shortfall of

revenues following the collapse of the “dot.com” industry

• An imprudently expanded state budget

• Personality of Gray Davis • Screen actor Arnold

Schwarzenegger

GovernorsBy Danielle Dye

• Unlike governors of the 1950’s who agreed a significant percentage of all issues

• In 1966 Ronald Reagan era• The governors staked out for

themselves• More differentiated points of

view• 1960’s witnessed a challenge

to the “natural” census • Through the Sun Belt which

included Southern California • Republicanism became

populist and antigovernment

Environmental DisasterBy Danielle Dye

• In modern time the most significant environmental wake up call was the Santa Barbara oil spill

• January 28,1969• When an oil drilling

platform 5 miles off shore of California malfunctioned

• Creating a sea of ooze that extended 35 miles in diameter and polluted 20miles of the Santa Barbara Coast

• Spurred environmental groups to militant action