Last week, Cineworld decided to close all 536 Regal Cinemas in the U.S., furloughing 40,000 employees, and AMC Theatres announced that it faces bankruptcy. In an op-ed in Fortune, Austin Bunn, associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and Koenig Jacobson Sesquicentennial Fellow, re-frames these COVID-related blows as an opportunity.
"I’m a screenwriter, whose early experiences swept up in the power of movies (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Do the Right Thing, and, okay fine: Dreamscape) have made me park myself in a chair for untold hours trying to reproduce it,” he writes in the piece. “The American way of moviegoing is long overdue for a “page one” rewrite, and I hope that these closures might serve as the inciting incident of a profound transformation in how we experience movies.”
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Cornell Provost Kavita Bala speaking with Kalaniyot Sabbatical Scholar Naomi Havron at the Kalaniyot reception Oct. 19. In the background, Kalaniyot Fellow Eden Eran Nagar speaks with Fellow Shachar Yerushalmi.
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Seidenberger built Hopper from scratch so students can see the logic on which it is built and play a role in developing it and improving it over the course of his class.
