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 ...
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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. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Octavo. 122pp. Ex-library with a tiny number stamp on the topstain, modest evidence of label removal on the pastedowns (hidden by the jacket flaps), and card pocket on the rear fly. Tiny stain at the top corners of the pages (not affecting the interior) overall very good in a dust jacket that would be near fine save for two spine labels (one on top of the other). The text is fine. An essay on film.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Octavo. 122pgs. Burgundy boards, Stated First printing. Superficial wear to the covers, otherwise like new. Unclipped pictorial jacket is bright with no tears or chips. in mylar sleeve. This is a book-length essay by writer James Baldwin Published in 1976, it is both a memoir of his experiences watching movies and a critique of the racial politics of American cinema.
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