Seminar: Scarface (1983)

Brian DePalma's Scarface tells the iconic tale of a poor immigrant's rise to crime boss and tragic fall to infamy. 

This seminar will examine the film through the lens of cross-cultural appropriation and interpolation, exploring how its mythos has migrated into various spheres of pop culture as well as how it came to occupy a unique imaginative space in the history of hip hop.

About Mikal J. Gaines

Mikal J. Gaines, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of English at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He teaches courses in Academic Writing and Research, Writing in the Humanities, Introduction to Film, and Speculative Fiction and Film. His work has appeared in ASAP/J, Discourse, The Projector, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Literature Interpretation Theory. His research areas include African American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, Horror and Gothic Studies, and Critical Theory.