The Devil Finds Work: An Essay

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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. —- ISBN: 9780307275950

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Format	Paperback

Features

ISBN-10:	0307275957
ISBN-13:	978-0307275950
Edition:	Vintage Intl ed.
Publisher:	Vintage
Publication date:	13 September 2011
Part of series:	Everyman´s Library Contemporary Classics Series
Language:	English
Dimensions:	20.32 x 13.21 x 1.27 cm
Print length:	144 pages

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