Please join Prof. Karlin’s film students for a public discussion on Gordon Parks’s landmark movie The Learning Tree based on his semi-autobiographical novel. Shot in Fort Scott, The Learning Tree provides a rare glimpse of African American life in Kansas in the 1920s. Parks was an established photographer when he made the movie, but it’s his first film (a year later he would make Shaft) and the first major Hollywood studio release directed by an African American.
The event is Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 7:00 pm in the auditorium of the Manhattan Public Library. No preparation necessary!