Presentation by Academy film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak to be held on Monday, October 20 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will be hosting a presentation on legendary film designer Saul Bass on Monday, October 20 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood, California.
Academy Film Scholar Jan-Christopher Horak will give a presentation on his forthcoming book Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design, examining the career of one of the most accomplished designers in Hollywood history. Best known for his title sequences for such films as Anatomy of a Murder, Psycho and Goodfellas, Bass also worked in advertising, designed posters, and directed numerous documentary and live action short films, including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates. Horak’s book delves into Bass’s influences, his design aesthetic, and how his ability to infuse his work with high art modernism raised the sophistication of Hollywood films and advertising.
Monday, October 20 at 7:30 pm
Linwood Dunn Theater
1313 Vine Street
Hollywood, California
Tickets are free and limited to two per person.
Horak has been Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive and Professor for Critical Studies since 2007. He is the author of numerous books on film including Film and Photo in the 1920s (1979), Anti-Nazi-Films Made by German Jewish Refugees in Hollywood (1985), The Dream Merchants: Making and Selling Films in Hollywood's Golden Age (1989), and Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema (1997). He was named an Academy Film Scholar in 2006.
This is the eleventh in a series of lectures spotlighting recipients of the Academy Film Scholars grant. Established in 1999, the Academy Film Scholars program is designed to stimulate and support the creation of new and significant works of film scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures.
Source: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
