The Devil Finds Work: An Essay (Vintage International #1)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
1976

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
144 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780804149686
Related ISBNs:
9780307275950
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
James Baldwin
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
Grade Levels:
Twelfth grade
Reading Age:
18 and up
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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