Authors on Architecture: Trafton on Movie-Made LA
SAH/SCC Zoom Program
Sunday, April 14, 2024
We
will once again look at the nexus of architecture in LA and the city’s role as the
home of the film industry when author John Trafton talks about Movie-Made Los Angeles (Wayne State University
Press, 2023).
LA
was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the 20th
Century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided
early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business. These art
forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted
the dusty backwater town of LA into the largest city on the west coast. Trafton
explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of
these art forms in the land of sunshine.
Trafton is originally from Southern California, and received his PhD from
the University of St. Andrews University in Scotland. He teaches cinema and media
studies at Occidental College in LA and Chapman University in Orange. He is the
author of several works on cinema history.
Trafton
on Movie-Made LA—Sunday, April 14th, 2024; 1-2:30 PM Pacific; $5; go to www.sahscc.org and pay via PayPal. Zoom
link sent upon registration.
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