Thursday, September 23, at 7:00 p.m., at the Collingswood Public Library
Dr. Robert A. Emmons, Jr. (Collingswood High Class of 1993) will
be showing his most recent film, "De Luxe: The Tale of the Blue
Comet." Emmons is a digital documentary filmmaker focusing on
American popular culture. His film, Goodwill (2007) was part of
the Smithsonian exhibition, Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits
of Latino Achievement at the New Jersey Historical Society, and
won "Best Homegrown Documentary Feature" at the 2008 Garden State
Film Festival. In 2009 he received Mexico's Lindbergh-Carranza
International Goodwill Award as a "Messenger of Peace" for his
work on Goodwill. Emmons teaches film, new media, and comics
history at Rutgers University-Camden where he is also the
Associate Director of the Honors College.