Date: Monday, December 5
Time: 7 pm EST

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Colin Dickey shares his fascination with Max Fleischer's 1933 Betty Boop film, Snow White, an unsettling and at times inexplicable film that has since become one of cinema's least understood classics. Despite being recognized as a masterpiece of its era, it remains fundamentally uncanny and elusive, less interested in the classic fairy tale around which it's (loosely) structured and far more interested in its central set piece, a ghostly, Rotoscoped Cab Calloway performing "St. James Infirmary Blues."

Part obsession and part confession, Colin Dickey will delve deep into this 7 minute mystery, detouring along the way through the world of Twin Peaks, MIKE and Killer BOB, Snow White archetypes and the history of early animation--all in an attempt to make sense of this strange and enigmatic film.

Colin Dickey is a writer, speaker, and academic, and has made a career out of collecting unusual objects and hidden histories all over the country. His books include The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith, and Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. He's a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books and Lapham's Quarterly, and is the co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death, a collective of artists, writers, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world's relationship with mortality. With a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, he is an associate professor of creative writing at National University.