Original cover design artwork by Georgia Kaisary for From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary. (Inspired by the cover design for Fredric Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System.)

Elio Rodriguez’s magnificent GONE WITH THE MACHO served as the basis for the cover design of From Havana to Hollywood. Here is the unmodified, original version of GONE WITH THE MACHO! Elio Rodriguez Valdes, “Gone with the Macho,” Las Perlas de tu boca, silkscreen on paper, 27,5″x19,5″, edition of 8. 1995. Courtesy of Elio Rodriguez and 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, NYC, 532gallery.com. ©

Congratulations to Victoria Hawco and Maki Salmon on the inaugural issue of Scaffold, the new open access, peer-reviewed graduate journal of the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton University!