Authors on Architecture: Trafton on Movie-Made LA SAH/SCC Zoom Program Sunday, April 14,2024, 01:00 PM PDT
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.
