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 "7th
Street"
"7th Street" is a feature documentary,
directed by Josh Pais, shot over a ten-year period in NYC's
East Village. The movie follows the transformation of Alphabet
City from 1992 to 2002. Pais captures the amazing changes
wrought during the second half of the 20th century -- the
counter-culture of the 1960's, the influx of drugs, and the
onslaught of gentrification.
A discussion will follow the film between Josh
Pais, and Suzanne Wasserman, the Associate Director of the
Gotham Center for NYC History. Pais is an actor who has appeared
in many movies including: "Music of the Heart,"
"A Civil Action," "A Beautiful Mind,"
and "The Phone Booth." He has appeared on television
in shows such as "Law and Order" and "Sex in
the City." Wasserman is an historian whose work has focused
on the history of the Lower East Side. She also just completed
her first film, "Thunder
in Guyana."
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 Gotham
in the Second World War
This forum presents a sneak preview of
the second installment of Gotham: A History of New York
City to 1898. Mike Wallace will discuss the city's role
in prosecuting the war, and explore the way its citizens experienced
life on the urban home front.
 Mike
Wallace is the Director of the Gotham Center for NYC History
as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham.
His most recent book is A
New Deal for New York.
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 The
Brooklyn Film
Brooklyn Borough historian John Manbeck
and Robert Singer discuss their new book, The Brooklyn
Film: Essays in the History of Filmmaking (McFarland),
which features an introduction by Pete Hamill with a 60-page
filmography. Join the editors and contributors for an evening
that celebrates the borough of Brooklyn as (mis) represented
in film. Excerpts from critical essays, an open discussion,
and some editied film sequences will highlight the event,
as each explores the history, traditions, and complexities
associated with the borough of Kings! Panelists include Manbeck,
retired professor of English, Kingsborough, Singer, professor
of English, Kingsborough, Wilbert Turner, ABD in English Studies
at SUNY Albany, and Amata Schneider-Ludorff, Ph.D. candidate
in English at Syracuse
University.
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 Shopping
in NYC
Book talk and signing for Sharon Zukin's
new book, Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American
Culture, (Routledge). Zukin's book examines New York City,
the shopping capital of the world. The book looks at the rise
and demise of B. Altman as well as the rise of superstores
in NYC. She also examines how New York Magazine and Zagat's
shaped contemporary consumer culture. Zukin is Professor of
Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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 Sweatshop,
USA
A panel discussion on the forthcoming book,
Sweatshop, USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and
Global Perspective.
America has recently rediscovered its sweatshops.
High profile scandals -- from Kathy Lee to Nike -- have brought
the shocking and substandard conditions of factories to light
and made more American consumers aware of the relationship
between themselves and foreign laborers. The panelists will
explore national debates over the sweatshop and suggest how
these conversations have responded to changing patterns of
global movements of people, goods and power. They also demonstrate
how efforts to control and eradicate sweatshops have been,
and remain, both national and global. Book signing to follow.
Participants will include: Eileen Boris (UC
Santa Barbara), Richard Greenwald (US Merchant Marine Academy),
Liza Featherstone (author, Students Against Sweatshops), Manny
Ness (Brooklyn College), Harry Rubinstein (Smithsonian), Ken
Wolensky (Pennsylvania Historical Society), Jennifer Guglielmo
(Smith College), Dan Bender (University of Waterloo).
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