Fatal Flâneur: On Joel Schumacher’s “Falling Down” and the Sidewalks of Los Angeles
Carl Abbott revisits Joel Schumacher’s “Falling Down,” starring Michael Douglas, for the film’s 30th anniversary.
Carl Abbott revisits Joel Schumacher’s “Falling Down,” starring Michael Douglas, for the film’s 30th anniversary.
The ways Octavia Butler depicted Pasadena offer a window into her own thinking, but also into the power of race and class in the city that shaped...
Carl Abbott on the politics of utopia in Austin Tappan Wright’s “Islandia.”
Carl Abbott on what science fiction can tell us not only about the city of tomorrow, but also today.
Twentieth-century fears of overpopulation are alive and well in “High-Rise,” J. G. Ballard’s classic science fiction novel and its 2016 film...