Devil Finds Work by Baldwin James (148 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Baldwins 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 Americas self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin considers such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Whos 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. James Baldwin 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"—one of America's most important writers turns his critical eye to American film. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Finds Work: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's mostbrilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenaryNovelist, essayist, and public intellectual - James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time-which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America today-along with three additional brilliant works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler and analyst of culture. From No Name In the Street's extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies to the \"passionate, probing, controversial\" (The Atlantic) Nobody Knows My Name and the incisive criticism of American movies in The Devil Finds Work, Baldwin's stunning prose over and over proves relevant to our contemporary struggle for equality, justice, and social change. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual - James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time-which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America today-along with three additional brilliant works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler and analyst of culture. From No Name In the Street's extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies to the "passionate, probing, controversial" (The Atlantic) Nobody Knows My Name and the incisive criticism of American movies in The Devil Finds Work, Baldwin's stunning prose over and over proves relevant to our contemporary struggle for equality, justice, and social change.…

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hardcover. Condition: As New. Like New. 1998. Green cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; jacket has light shelf wear; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name stamped on title page; Interior is clean and unmarked; ribbon marker bound in; 869 pages.