Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood

In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America’s most modern film studio of the time as well as the proposed site of the world’s largest Christian center. […]
The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion…