The 2016-17 Schnitzer Cinema will be devoted to the theme “In the Street,” with films that capture a range of subjects from street photography to Occupy Wall Street and are accompanied by guest speakers, in person or via Skype.

Programmed by Richard Herskowitz,  curator of media arts at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, all screenings begin at 7 p.m.

On Wednesday, Oct. 19, the Schnitzer Cinema series will open with a showing of “Everybody Street” and will include a Skype talk with director Cheryl Dunn. “Everybody Street” captures the innate perseverance and adrenaline-inducing dangers that are the daily experience of New York City’s iconic street photographers.

The documentary features photographers Bruce Davidson, Mary Ellen Mark, Elliot Erwitt, Ricky Powell and Jamel Shabazz.

“Cheryl Dunn is herself a street photographer” Herskowitz said, “and she has produced an illuminating look at how some great street photographers manage to create indelible images.”

On Wednesday, Nov. 9, in Room 180, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, the series will continue with a deeper look at one of Dunn’s subjects, “Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer,” directed by Charlie Ahearn. Jamel Shabazz has documented New York street life, most famously in his legendary images of the early hip hop scene, collected in his book “Back in the Days.”

The film will be hosted by Andre Sirois, who teaches hip-hop culture in the cinema studies program.

The Schnitzer Cinema series is co-sponsored by Academic Affairs, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English.