ODU Libraries welcomes the Monarch community to a free film screening of Blazing Saddles, selected from the collection! Enjoy the movie classic, projected onto the starry skies of ODU’s Lê Planetarium, and an introduction by Michael K. Johnson, PhD, - author of Weird Westerns, Hell-Bent for Leather, Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth, Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos, and A Black Woman's West!
- Date: February 19
- Time: Doors @ 6:15pm
- Location: Michael and Kimthanh Lê Planetarium
Blazing Saddles: In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a Black sheriff, who promptly becomes the politician’s most formidable adversary. (IMDb)