Experience Film and Media in Los Angeles

FILM 3375: Learning from Los Angeles: History of the Image and the Image of History

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Course Dates: May 30 - June 30, 2023

Learning from Los Angeles is a study-abroad course that will explore the fantastic histories, myths, and contradictions of the first modern media city, and the image it fashioned for itself.  As an experiential field course, it will blend screenings, readings, and field trips to focus on a variety of themes and topics about the city and its histories.

While exploring the gilded legends from the silent to the studio era, the course will simultaneously take a street view of Los Angeles and connect students with the many communities and cultural organizations committed to its unknown and forgotten histories such as the LA Urban Rangers; the LAPD (Los Angeles Poverty Department); The Center for Land Use Interpretation; and the LA River Revitalization Project.

Optional Overnight Field Trip: Palm Springs