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The Devil Finds Work

by James Baldwin

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James Baldwin At The Movies...  Provocative, timeless, brilliant.

Bette Davis's eyes, Joan Crawford's bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit's stereotype, Sidney Poitier's superhuman black man...  These are the movie stars and the qualities that influenced James Baldwin...  and now become part of his incisive look at racism in American movies.

Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist, offering us a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions.  Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained us and shaped our consciousness.  And here, too, is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change.

From The Birth of a Nation to The Exorcist--one of America's most important writers turns his critical eye to American film.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780385334600
Author:
Baldwin, James A.
Publisher:
Delta
Author:
Baldwin, James A.
Location:
New York
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Film - General
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Motion picture plays
Subject:
Afro-americans in motion pictures
Subject:
Ameracan factacn (factacnal wcrks by cne auth
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Subject:
African Americans in motion pictures
Subject:
Film & Video - General
Subject:
Motion picture plays -- History and criticism.
Subject:
Anthologies-Essays
Copyright:
2000
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
no. 98-11
Publication Date:
20000631
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
144
Dimensions:
8.16x5.24x.42 in. .28 lbs.
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