A RENESAN in the Railyard presentation in collaboration with the Jean Cocteau Cinema. Film Noir: Fatalism in L.A. Los Angeles has a history that reveals the many contradictions emblematic in film noir, in which the American dream was treated with bitter irony because wealth and power were all that mattered. We’ll look at four films set in Los Angeles — Double Indemnity, Chinatown, Heat, and L.A. Confidential — where bourgeois domestic life became so stultifying that crime became irresistibly attractive to those trapped in it. This is a TWO SESSION TICKET for October 16 & 23. William “Bud” Cox has taught literature, film, art history, and music history for more than 46 years and remains deeply enthusiastic about teaching. His recent RENESAN courses include Robert Altman's Nashville and Great Comic Moments in Cinema.