“The History of New Jersey’s Movie Industry”
Madison Historical Society Zoom Lecture by Stephen Whitty
There is a rich history of movie making in New Jersey and who better to tell it than Stephen Whitty, former movie critic of the Star Ledger for many years and well-known lecturer. Join us for this look back at our state’s major role in the movie industry and some of the New Jerseyans who helped shape it.
Mr. Whitty is a nationally read, award-winning journalist with more than 35 years’ experience. He has published numerous profiles, reviews, trend pieces, essays and fiction in the Star-Ledger, the New York Daily News, Entertainment Weekly, the Times-Picayune, the Plain Dealer, the San Jose Mercury News, Fortune.com and other publications. He is the author of “The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia” (Rowman & Littlefield). He has been an instructor at NYU and Baruch, lecturer at Montclair State and Rutgers, speaker at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of the Moving Image. He has hosted Bryant Park and NY Film Critics series and special presentations by the Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild and New York Film Festival. He reviews 200 movies a year.
This program is free and open to the public. Email the Madison Historical Society at: historyspeakerseries@gmail.com for registration, no later than 2 p.m. on Monday, March 18 in order to receive the link to join the Zoom presentation.
