- Performing arts, Knowledge, Motion picture plays, History and criticism
Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing 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.
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- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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- Author
- James Baldwin
- First published
- February 1, 1990
- Pages
- 146
- Publisher
- Dell, Dial Press, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9781538425459
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“JOAN CRAWFORD'S STRAIGHT, narrow, and lonely back.”
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.[1] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29#Bibliography
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