
Leonard Quart
Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema — CUNY and COSI; Contributing Editor, Cineaste; Columnist for Berkshire Eagle; and co-author of American Film and Society Since 1945 —4th Edition (Praeger).
Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema — CUNY and COSI; Contributing Editor, Cineaste; Columnist for Berkshire Eagle; and co-author of American Film and Society Since 1945 —4th Edition (Praeger).
Leonard Quart reviews the film that won big at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is nominated for the 2021 Golden Globe Award for Best Picture – Foreign Language.
We see him over the course of 20 months, putting out a fire, getting doors and a television fixed in City Hall, dealing with a sewage spill, traveling the city meeting with constituents.
Seider argues for a New Deal to manage the crisis of older factory towns. At the moment, the pandemic has undermined much of the American economy — so it’s the right moment for a New Deal to be ra
Despite living hermetically in a beleaguered New York, the author has reasons to feel the future of the city, and the country, will be brighter.
The stories they tell and the blues themselves are a profound part of the Black experience that Wilson sees as “the betrayal, the pain, the laughter, the joy—all parts of understanding life.
Most importantly for the working class, the Second New Deal helped energize the U.S. labor movement by providing federal recognition of the right to organize.
At the moment, I still want to believe that the city will resurrect itself, as it has done so many times in the past. Clearly, we will see a different city when the pandemic ever eases.
I can pick flaws in Sorkin’s film, but I remain moved by his resurrection of a time, somewhat parallel to our own, when a large constituency among the young struggled against an administration that
Though the numbers of deaths following police contact are thankfully not as bad in the UK as in the U.S., there is no reason for the British to be smug when it comes to their own structural problems w
The extreme situation “Shame” deals with may not be parallel to the COVID-19 crisis, but we also face something dangerous outside ourselves that has radically altered our lives.
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