Luci Marzola

Biography

Luci Marzola is a film historian specializing in the early Hollywood technology and labor. Her research has been published in the volumes Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema (2024) and Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood (2024) as well as the journals Film History, Historical Journal of Film, Television, and Radio, and The Velvet Light Trap. Her book Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of the Studio System (Oxford University Press, 2021) was the 2022 recipient of the CEMI Best Book Award from the Media Industries SIG of SCMS. Her edited volume, co-editing with Kate Fortmueller, Hollywood Unions is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press. She is the Academic Director of and teaches in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.