Movie-Made Los Angeles by Trafton, John
Movie-Made Los Angeles by Trafton, John

Movie-Made Los Angeles

Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the...
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Author: John Trafton
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Movie-Made Los Angeles by Trafton, John

Movie-Made Los Angeles

$139.63
Movie-Made Los Angeles by Trafton, John

Movie-Made Los Angeles

$139.63
Author: John Trafton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915. Photography aided the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in opening the region to the rest of nation. Painters gave traditions that were fading in Europe a new lease on life in the California sun, with signature colors and techniques that would be adopted by L.A. real estate companies, agribusiness, and health retreats. Tourism infused the iconography and signature styles of art with cultural mythology of the state's colonial past, offering proto-cinematic experiences to those who ventured west. Author John Trafton explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of these art forms 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.

Author: John Trafton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 10/17/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780814347768


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2023 pg. 92

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.


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