The Devil Finds Work (UK HB 1st)

Baldwin, James

ISBN 10: 0718115538 / ISBN 13: 9780718115531

Published by Michael Joseph, 1976

About this Item

UK hardback first impression. Good only overall with some knocks to corners and some spotting to prelims. The jacket is unclipped with a nick to base of spine and maybe some spine fade.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1772311158860

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil Finds Work (UK HB 1st)
• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718115538
• ISBN 13: 9780718115531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 453.59 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an 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.

From the Inside Flap

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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.