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Catherine Zimmer

Catherine Zimmer

Catherine Zimmer is the author of Surveillance Cinema (NYU Press, 2015) and the chair of the Film and Screen Studies Department at Pace University in New York City. icon

“We Live in an Age of Dynasties”

By Catherine Zimmer

In retrospect, watching all nine seasons of the original Dynasty (ABC, 1981–89) was a strange choice. I was looking for something escapist, a wormhole to a ...

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