CINSSU Academic Seminar: Working Class in the Age of Deindustrialization: Michael Mann's Thief

When and Where

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E
Innis College
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Speakers

Patrick Marshall

Description

What is class? Does it still exist? This talk examines these questions through a reading of Michael Mann's 1981 heist film Thief, one of the first American films to register anxieties about the waning of the working class in a rapidly deindustrializing 1980s United States.

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2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

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