Discussion: I’ll Be Seeing You

Discussion: “I’ll Be Seeing You” is an educational film program examining the emergence of film noir during the early 1940s, as wartime anxiety, refugee filmmaking, American pulp fiction, and German expressionism shaped a new cinematic genre. The program considers how noir reflected economic desperation, changing roles for women, psychological turmoil, and the uncertainties of life during wartime.

The experience includes an introduction to the film, the screening, and a post-film discussion with experienced instructors and fellow audience members in the Education and Community Engagement Center. The discussion explores the films’ cultural context, including the era’s film criticism and popular psychoanalytic ideas, and considers how conflict appears in the mind, on the streets, and abroad.

When: Wednesday, November 18

Showtimes: 6:15 PM and 7:00 PM

Run time: Approximately 3 hours

Venue: Coolidge Corner Theatre

Location: Education and Community Engagement Center

Tickets: Price not available

Admission includes: A film introduction, the screening, and a post-film discussion

Series focus: The program examines film noir’s relationship to wartime propaganda, national identity, economic hardship, empowered women, psychological distress, and the cultural anxieties of an American society in limbo.

Presenter: Kay Lynch

About Kay Lynch: Lynch founded Salem Horror Fest and serves as film program director at The Bower by Montserrat College of Art. She has programmed and presented hundreds of films at venues including the American Cinematheque, Peabody Essex Museum, Coolidge Corner Theatre, and CinemaSalem. Her Coolidge work includes teaching the sold-out five-week course “Arthouse of Horror.” Her commentaries for *The City of the Dead* and *The Cell* appear on restorations released by Severin and Arrow Films.