My Favorite Movie with Devoney Looser: Rollerball

In 1975, Hollywood imagined that by 2018, omnipotent corporations would have eradicated war, famine and disease, leaving the bored, complacent masses to find excitement in the horrendously violent sport of rollerball. Corporations missed that deadline to solve all our problems (though who could have imagined AirPods?!), but we have commercialized plenty of other dubious entertainments.

Join Future Tense and Devoney Looser for a screening and discussion of Rollerball, a gripping social critique played out in dubious ’70s fashions. Professor Devoney Looser is the author of "The Making of Jane Austen." She is a foundation professor of English at Arizona State University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and National Endowment for the Humanities public scholar. She also plays roller derby under the name of “Stone Cold Jane Austen,” and serves as faculty adviser to the ASU Derby Devils.

This latest installment of Future Tense’s “My Favorite Movie” series will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at Washington, D.C.'s Landmark E Street Cinema at 555 11th Street NW. You may RSVP for yourself and up to one guest. Seating is limited.

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Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America and Arizona State University.