In the Fall, I’m thinking of tailoring HUM303: History and Culture to focus on novel-to-film adaptations and including a section on glamour and the film crush. An obvious candidate would be Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein starring Elsa Lanchester.
More Elsa:
An image of Lewis Michaux’s African National Memorial bookstore in 1961:
Michaux is featured in The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 which you can screen in full on youtube:
Using “CDMX” as a keyword search on artstor:
Richard Yarde, “Malcolm X” (1978)
based on Malcolm’s mugshot when he was known in Harlem as Detroit Red:
All of these images are from artstor.org
If you’re interested. Doug Henwood’s Left Business Observer is very useful for a critical appraisal of contemporary capitalism’s self-veneration.
see: https://lbo-news.com
