The Devil Finds Work
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James Baldwin At The Movies... Provocative timeless brilliant. Bette Daviss eyes Joan Crawfords bitchy elegance Stepin Fetchits stereotype Sidney Poitiers 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 Whos Coming to Dinner and The Exorcist offering us a vision of Americas 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 Americas most important writers turns his critical eye to American film. From the Trade Paperback edition.
