The Devil Finds Work - Softcover

Baldwin, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440206618 ISBN 13: 9780440206613

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

The celebrated Black writer turns a critical eye to the American film industry, providing an incisive look at racism in the cinema from The Birth of a Nation to The Exorcist

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n 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--o

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0440206618
• ISBN 13: 9780440206613
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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