Event

Screening of Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project as part of the 2020 Jay I. Kislak Symposium, February 20-21, 2020, Black Women Writing Across Genres in the Late 20th Century.

For thirty years, beginning in 1979, Marion Stokes, who lived in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, was secretly recording television twenty-four hours a day. She amassed 70,000 VHS tapes, an archive that is now a window into the role of television in shaping our world. This film explores the story of this collector of the ephemeral and the amazing legacy she left us