This two-week course with Dave Austin and Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare examines the important place of the actor who played the now-iconic character of Ben in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) and the lead in the experimental horror film, GANJA AND HESS (1973), as a figure embodying the revolutionary aspirations of the Vietnam era.
David Austin is the author of FEAR OF A BLACK NATION: RACE, SEX, AND SECURITY IN SIXTIES MONTREAL (2013), winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize. He has also produced radio documentaries for CBC’s IDEAS on the life and work of C.L.R. James (THE BLACK JACOBIN, 2004) and Frantz Fanon (THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH, 2006) and he currently teaches in the Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Religion at John Abbott College.
