Chapter One: “Sunshine or Noir?” so Eggers hand-painted or hand-drew

so Eggers hand-painted or hand-drew over each

all to injuriously catastrophic effect

Alexander Chee

Daniel Halpern

First published in 1922 and adapted to screen the following year by Rupert Hughes himself

Chapter One: “Sunshine or Noir?” so Eggers hand-painted or hand-drewSunshine or Noir? is the opening chapter of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso, 1990) by the late communist historian Mike Davis. In what Davis calls his master dialectic of L. A., sunshine and noir represent the forces of capitalist interest in Los Angeles and the intellectual community of writers, critics, immigrants, and filmmakersa fantastic convergence of American tough guy realism, Weimar expressionism, and