“ODDBALL FLEISCHER” Post-film conversation with Animation Historian Jerry Beck and Film Forum Founding Repertory Artistic Direct

Noah Isenberg is the Charles Sapp Centennial Professor of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the University’s two study-away programs, UTLA (Los Angeles) and UTNY (New York City), where he’s based. Author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller We’ll Always Have CASABLANCA: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie (W.W. Norton, 2017), his anthology Billy Wilder on Assignment (Princeton, 2021) was selected by Tom Stoppard as a TLS 2021 Book of the Year. His latest book, a cultural history of SOME LIKE IT HOT and the great American sex comedy, is due out next year from Norton. A 2026 Guggenheim fellow, he is currently completing short interpretive biography of Wilder for the Yale Jewish Lives series.