Film historian Harry Chotiner on the state of American cinema

Subscribe to  Berkeley Talks ,   a  Berkeley News  podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. Harry Chotiner, a film historian and an adjunct assistant professor at New York University, gave a lecture on Jan. 22, 2019, about film in the past year, from Hollywood blockbusters and indie favorites to the impact of the #MeToo movement, changes in the film academy and the Oscars. The lecture was part of a series of talks sponsored by UC Berkeley's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) . "The two things that I think are most importantly new are streaming and the #MeToo movement, and that's what I want to focus on,” says Chotiner. "In terms of streaming, I would say we're sort of in the middle of the beginning of the streaming revolution. Streaming is the biggest threat to movie theaters since television came in in the 1950s.
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