Just before the Covid-19 quarantine, I joined my fellow hosts on Turner Classic Movies for an “Old Hollywood” fashion photo shoot for Emmy Magazine. But when the spread came out, I could not bring myself to post the photos to my social media. As an African American cinema and media studies professor, how could I promote the glamour of classic Hollywood when our current media landscape was exploding with scenes of racial crisis?
Just before the Covid-19 quarantine, I joined my fellow hosts on Turner Classic Movies for an “Old Hollywood” fashion photo shoot for Emmy Magazine. But when the spread came out, I could not bring myself to post the photos to my social media. As an African American cinema and media studies professor, how could I promote the glamour of classic Hollywood when our current media landscape was exploding with scenes of racial crisis?
