Articles — John Trafton

September 2024

Anywhere and Nowhere: New Zealand, California, and Cinematic Place Substitution

July 2024

Mapping The Dude’s L.A. in The Big Lebowski

December 2022

The Kubrickian Shadow of David Bowie

September 2022

The Art of The Last of the Mohicans

August 2021

Do We Deserve the Xenomorph?

July 2021

Jim Morrison: Filmmaker

March 2020

History as a Virtual Reality Experience — History as a Virtual Reality Experience

October 2019

History is What Hurts: Suspiria (2018) and Possession (1981)

September 2019

On Film and Opera

August 2019

The Los Angeles Plan 2.0

Messiah of Evil: Film and the Influence of L.A. Pop Art — Messiah of Evil: Film and the Influence of L.A. Pop Art

July 2019

L.A. Punk Cinema

March 2019

A Land of Wolves: Sicario and the New Drug War Film (Co-Authored with Eileen Rositzka of Cinepoetics - Free University of Berlin) — A Land of Wolves: Sicario and the New Drug War Film (Co-Authored with Eileen Rositzka of Cinepoetics - Free University of Berlin)

February 2018

Paul Thomas Anderson's Los Angeles: Inherent Vice (2014) — Paul Thomas Anderson's Los Angeles: Inherent Vice (2014)

Michael Mann's Los Angeles: L.A. Takedown (1989), Heat (1995), and Collateral (2004) — Michael Mann's Los Angeles: L.A. Takedown (1989), Heat (1995), and Collateral (2004)

2017

Believe a Man Can Fly: Richard Donner's Superman (1978) and the Cinematic Recovery of American Mythology in 1970s Cinema — Believe a Man Can Fly: Richard Donner's Superman (1978) and the Cinematic Recovery of American Mythology in 1970s Cinema

2016

Civil War Photography and the Contemporary War FilmFrames Cinema Journal - June 2015 — Civil War Photography and the Contemporary War Film
Frames Cinema Journal - June 2015

The End of the History in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive - Bright Lights Film Journal — The End of the History in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive - Bright Lights Film Journal

2015

David Ayer’s End of the Watch and the Militarization of U.S. Law Enforcement — Bright Lights Film Journal (2013) — David Ayer’s End of the Watch and the Militarization of U.S. Law Enforcement — Bright Lights Film Journal (2013)

2013