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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

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Author

James Baldwin

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804149686

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History

Rating

4.7 / 5 (243 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14