The Best Years of Our Lives

(Movies)
When
March 24, 2019 <m>(Sunday)
Where
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue
Astoria, New York 11106 (US)
Phone: 718-777-6800
Website: http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2019/03/24/detail/the-best-years-of-our-lives-engineering-the-body

Event Details

The Museum of the Moving Image's Science on Screen series presents a special screening of William Wyler's Oscar-winning film The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946). In the film, three veterans (Frederic March, Dana Andrews, and Harold Russell) struggle to readjust to their home lives after World War II. The biggest struggle comes for Homer (played by real-life veteran Harold Russell), who has lost both hands in combat and must learn to adapt to prosthetic hooks. The screening will be followed by a conversation between historian of technology David Serlin and assistive technology expert Anita Perr about engineering prosthetics and the power and limitations of non-normative bodies. 

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