Film

Friday, September 27, 2019 - 7:00pm | Talk back with Joel Pfister (American Studies, Wesleyan University)
Whitney Humanities Center
Director:
George Roy Hill
Writer:
William Goldman
Stars:
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

Wyoming, early 1900s.

Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 7:00pm | Talk back with Daphne Brooks (African American Studies), Daniel HoSang (Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies), and Aimee Cox (African American Studies and Anthropology)
Whitney Humanities Center
Director:
Spike Lee
Writer:
Spike Lee
Stars:
Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brookly

Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 8:45am | Talk back with Crystal Feimster
Yale African American Studies
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A chronicle of Dr. 

Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 7:30pm | Talk back with John MacKay
Yale Film & Media Studies
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Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California.

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 7:30am | Talk back with Laura Wexler
Yale Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
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The story of 

Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Jim Sleeper
Yale Political Science
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A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.

Friday, December 7, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Nikhil Singh
NYU American Studies
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Black Americans boycott Montgomery’s public buses during the 1950s civil rights movement.

Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with director John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, Anarchists’ Convention, Inc.
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When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-burie

Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Katie Trumpener, Yale Comparative Literature
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A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspira

Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 7:00pm | Talk back with Beverly Gage
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A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 7:30pm | Talk back with Michael Denning
Whitney Humanities Center
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An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation.