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The Devil Finds Work: An Essay

The Devil Finds Work: An Essay

Baldwin, James

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismFilm Studies

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0307275957
ISBN13: 9780307275950
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 13 2011
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the best essayist in this country (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the films that have shaped our consciousness.

Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering a look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin considers such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist.

Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained and shaped us. And here too is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change.

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