Readings:

PROMPT:

Ostensibly, The Landlord is about one white man who moves into a Black neighborhood.   But might we also read the film as being about neighborhood change more generally?  How might we evaluate the film as a narrative about gentrification?  Does Elgar embody the spirit of gentrification–as it happens even today? If so, why?  If not, why not?

 

 

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