Luci Marzola

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

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Congrats, Maggie!!!

Every great Billy Wilder movie is roughly 110 minutes. Just saying.

With the horrifying capitulation by Columbia, and as someone that has worked in the college admissions space for 20+ years, I would want more like to rail against the right's ABSOLUTE OBSESSION w/GPA and test scores as being the only thing that should matter for admissions. It is an asinine metric!

The Hollywood Conference was great! Congratulations to @lucimarz.bsky.social and all the organizers. #HWC2025

The Hollywood Conference at USC was perfect: highly-quality scholarship on a focused topic, great mix of scholars at all ranks, and lots of time for conviviality and community. Thanks @lucimarz.bsky.social! You’re an ace. #HWC2025

The Hollywood Conference affirmed my love of small, thematic conferences. I saw so many inspiring talks, and there was enough downtime to have actual conversations with people I have known for a long time and with people I just met here. I hope there will be a second iteration. #HWC2025

On the occasion of #HWC2025 our colleague Eric Hoyt (of Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research) has written this wonderful blog post. Includes links to resources from Media History Digital Library.

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If we can convince Bill to stay out that late! I'm working on it. 😁

So excited for this! We're going to talk about bringing Hollywood history to the public with @kristenklopez.bsky.social @benmank77.bsky.social and Thomas Doherty. Should be a fantastic, lively conversation!

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Looks like Los Angeles is going to show off its A+ weather for the Hollywood Conference this week. Bring your sunglasses for the LA sunshine and light sweaters for our breezy evenings (and overzealous air conditioning in the School of Cinematic Arts). #HWC2025

We’re hoping to do this again in 2027!

It’s finally become marginal enough to get its own conference!

This 1st—of hopefully many—Hollywood Conference is going to be so 🔥 and I’m extremely jealous of the lucky folks who get to attend!

Enjoy & post everything
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And what a time to be in LA 😍

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The Hollywood Conference is just over a week away and we have our full schedule up on our website. It's going to be so much fun (for an academic conference)! #HWC25 thehollywoodconference.com

Despite these weird times, I’m looking forward to participating in the inaugural Hollywood Conference at University of Southern California in a few weeks. Bravo @lucimarz.bsky.social @jdconnor.bsky.social @nitingovil.bsky.social + team for planning an amazing 4 days!

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We will be paying tribute to Barbara and her legacy through the amazing panel she put together for the Hollywood Conference. She was excited to celebrate the legacy of the PCA files in researching Hollywood, and she was a huge part of that, which we we will now also celebrate.

Gutted by the loss of my friend and colleague Barbara. I never could have written EH without her guidance and help in penetrating the hidden archives of the Herrick. Her chapter on the Art Directors Guild in Hollywood Unions was a vivid example of the care and thought she put into everything.

Barbara Hall, film historian, Archivist for the Art Directors Guild, former Archivist at the Margaret Herrick Library (AMPAS), and co-author of Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking (2019), passed away on May 24, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.

Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating "Optional Practical Training" in the US The White House has taken numerous steps to sharply reduce the number of immigrant workers, with or without legal status, in the US economy. These policies, so far, typically target immigrants with le...

They're terminating OPT.

Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US.

6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

Now imagining Beaver growing up to be Ernest (who was Vern annoying neighbor!)

I meant Dennis! I swear I’ve got my 50s sitcoms straight.

Isn’t Leave It To Beaver just a show where the bratty neighbor is the star?

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The lovely @natlhumanities.bsky.social is hiring a Scholarly Programs Research Manager! nationalhumanitiescenter.org/careers/

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.

(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

I’m a little happier to send them into this precarious industry with their eyes open and a little more prepared for what’s ahead.

They learned so much from reading @eithnequinn.bsky.social @mirandabanks.bsky.social @kfortmueller.bsky.social @arthousedirectr.bsky.social @pmonticone.bsky.social and visits from @labuzamovies.com @rodman.bsky.social Bruce Green, Cathy Schulman, Dawn Fratini, Emmelle Israel.

Had a fantastic final class in my seminar on #HollywoodUnions today. So exciting to see student engage with the work. They presented on women editors, equity and the roster system, WGA arbitration, reality TV writers and performers, HUAC, TikTok drama production, controlling data in negotiations…

Congratulations, Howard! So well deserved.

Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...