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The Learning Tree Film Showing

Chazen Museum of Arts

Event Details

Date
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Time
6-9 p.m.
Location
Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium
Description
Famed photographer Parks became the first African-American to direct a feature film for a major Hollywood studio (Warner Bros) with this adaptation of Parks’ own semi-autobiographical novel. The film depicts the coming-of-age of teenaged Newt Winger (Johnson) in rural Kansas of the 1920s. Opening Lecture by Steve Ryfle, "Desegregating Hollywood: Film and the Civil Rights Era" Co-presented by UW Madison Friends of the Libraries.
Cost
Free

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