The Connecticut Premiere of “Indies Under Fire: The Battle for the American Bookstore”

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Goldsmith Family Cinema
Center for Film Studies, 301 Washington Terrace, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
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A 2006 documentary directed by Jacob Bricca, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University.  In the span of just a decade, over half of the nations independent bookstores vanished. This gripping documentary chronicles the devastating effect of giant book chains on the nation's independent bookstores -- and how they are fighting back!

Guest speakers:

• Director Jacob Bricca ’93,

• Stu Hecht, owner of The Book Vault in Wallingford  http://www.thebookvault.net/

• Thomas Talbot '91, manager of Crawford-Doyle Booksellers, New York City.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Wesleyan Library
Free Admission

For event information, contact: 860-685-3897 http://www.wesleyan.edu/library/friends/

With support from the Center for Film Studies