A Movie About TV

Does television strike you as one-dimensional? Despite the physical projection of two dimensions of humor, drama or reality, does the entire interaction seem to you to be fraught with one-sided platitudes and people who talk to you, not with you? Are you looking for your leisure time to be more devoted to correcting society's ills than putting them on outright, advertiser-driven display? If so, perhaps you should check out tonight's 7 p.m. screening of Class Dismissed, a film investigating the ways in which gender, race and sexuality inform and affect our television viewing. In a time when political candidates worth millions hold themselves up as saviors of the working class, the film explores the way TV connects screen-based portrayals to negative attitudes toward the working class. The film plays at the Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library (1109 Massachusetts in Lawrence). For more information, call 785-865-1374. — McKay Stangler
Tue., May 20, 7 p.m., 2008