Co-sponsored by Nazareth College’s School of Education. Perhaps best remembered for his book Growing Up Absurd — a sociopolitical tract on “the disgrace of the Organized System” that both predicted and helped to inspire the radical changes of the 1960s — the late Paul Goodman was also a novelist, activist, anarchist, and urban theorist, as well as a proudly out gay man in 1940s America. Despite his influence and importance, Goodman remains ripe for rediscovery, a situation that director Jonathan Lee has set out to address. Combining archival footage, excerpts from Goodman’s writing, and interviews with his friends, family, and associates, Paul Goodman Changed My Life is an insightful portrait of a figure whose ideas couldn’t be more contemporary.

A discussion with director Jonathan Lee and Goodman scholars Michael Brown and Michael C. Fisher will immediately follow the screening.

Friday, Feb. 10, 8 p.m.
Paul Goodman Changed My Life
(Jonathan Lee, US 2011, 89 min., Digital Projection)