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Winter Meeting: Date Change!

We’re pleased to announce the next meeting of the Chicago Film Seminar, which will take place  Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 PM . (Please note the date change; the meeting has been moved from February 8 to March 1.) We will be meeting at  DePaul’s Loop Campus in the Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson Blvd., Room LL 102 (use the State Street entrance located at 247 S. State) .  Join us for a discussion with  Miriam J. Petty  (Northwestern University) and  Allison McCracken  (DePaul University) of their books  Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood  (University of California Press) and  Real Men Don’t Sing: Crooning in American Culture  (Duke University Press).  Allyson Nadia Field  (University of Chicago) will moderate. Stealing the Show  is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent cultural and industr...