Movie-Made Los Angeles

About the author

A native of Southern California, John Trafton is an instructor in film and media history at Seattle University and the Seattle International Film Festival's Education program. His research in film history, visual culture, and American history has appeared in publications including Rethinking History, Film International, and Journal of War and Cultural Studies. He cohosts a film and culture podcast called This Movie Saved My Life, and he has been an invited speaker and panel organizer at several academic and industry conferences.

Summary

Explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of photography, painting, and tourist promotion in the land of sunshine. A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.

Product details

• Authors: John Trafton
• Publisher: WAYNE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2023
• EAN: 9780814347768
• ISBN: 978-0-8143-4776-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV