Contact information
Name:
Andrew Smith
Phone:
610-330-5244
Email:
smitham@lafayette.edu
When:
Monday, October 23, 2017 - 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
Landis Cinema, Buck Hall - 219 N. 3rd St.
Presenter:
Robert Seidman
Price:
Free
ROBERT J. SEIDMAN is a novelist, Emmy-winning screenwriter and literary critic. Seidman’s screenwriting credits include the Emmy-nominated A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, a 90-minute documentary. He has written PBS documentary films about Wallace Stevens, Margaret Mead, and Samuel Beckett. He also wrote several films about art, including In Our Time, the final program of the nine-part series ambitiously titled Art of the Western World. Seidman was co-writer of Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life. This film won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Documentary, a George Foster Peabody Award, and the Emmy for Best Documentary, 2007. He is currently finishing a feature documentary film about Joseph Pulitzer, one of America’s most dynamic and innovative newspaper publishers. The film is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and WNET.
Sponsored by:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Music Department and Film & Media Studies