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Velvet Prisons: Russell Jacoby on American Academia

Velvet Prisons: Russell Jacoby on American Academia

Biography, Documentary | English | 55 minutes

Company

Adler & Associates Entertainment, Inc.


Cast & Crew

Directors

Kurt Jacobsen, Warren Leming

Producers

Hugh Iglarsh, Kurt Jacobsen, Warren Leming, Marie Adler

Cast

Russell Jacoby, Warren Leming, Hugh Iglarsh, Kurt Jacobsen, Dan Gantner


Trailer

youtube.com/watch?v=tAGtLwPiJ24


Synopsis

This provocative documentary on maverick academic Russell Jacoby explores the ignominious the fate of public intellectuals, the neutering of radicalism in American public life and the need for daring Utopian thought.

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Completion Year

2016


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