JOAN CRAWFORD'S STRAIGHT, narrow, and lonely back.
An edition of The Devil Finds Work
(1976)
The devil finds work
an essay
by James Baldwin
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Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in 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 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.
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Performing arts, Knowledge, Motion picture plays, History and criticism, Racism, African Americans in motion pictures, Juvenile fiction, Great-grandfathers, Old age, Storytelling, Fiction, Children's fiction, Old age, fiction, American Motion picture plays, Baldwin, james, 1924-1987, Motion picture plays, history and criticism, Knowledge and learningPeople
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The devil finds work: an essay
2011, Vintage
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed.
0307275957 9780307275950
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The devil finds work: an essay
1976, Dial Press, Brand: Dial, Dial
in English
0803719167 9780803719163
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