Image via the Publication of New York Women in Criminal Justice in tangent with the Prostitution Task Force
An illustrated lecture with Amy Herzog, Queens College
Date: Friday, June 20 (Tickets here)
Time: 8 pm
Admission: $8
Location: The Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 A 3rd Avenue (Corner of 7th Street and 3rd Avenue), 11215 Brooklyn, NY
This latest installment of Amy Herzog’s ongoing research into the history of Times Square centers on the apparatus of the peep show arcade as a cinematic and social phenomenon. The midcentury peep booth, constructed from outmoded film devices, serves as a curious interface: it places the filmed bodies it displays, as well as the bodies of its users, within a complex architecture of automation, exchange, performance, and refusal. This illustrated talk will rethink the act of public peeping as an embodied social practice.
Amy Herzog is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College and Coordinator of the Film Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has published essays on film and popular music, philosophy, pornography, gentrification, parasites, and dioramas; she is also the author of Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and co-editor, with Carol Vernallis and John Richardson, of The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (Oxford, 2013).