A Conversation with Brian Jacobson
A Conversation with Brian Jacobson March 02, 2021 Caltech's new professor of visual culture wants his students to learn to see—closely, critically, and contextually. Given that Brian Jacobson's earlier research focused on the architecture of film studio buildings, his affinity for the L.A. area comes as no surprise. He joined Caltech in the summer of 2020 from the University of Toronto, where he taught cinema studies and history, after earning his PhD at USC. Hired as part of the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture, which launched in 2018 with grant funding from The Andrew W....