The Devil Finds Work The Devil Finds Work

The Devil Finds Work

An Essay

    • 4.9 • 11 Ratings
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2011
September 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
966.4
KB
I Am Not Your Negro I Am Not Your Negro
2017
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
1998
The Republic of Imagination The Republic of Imagination
2014
Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows
2015
If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels If There Were Demons Then Perhaps There Were Angels
2015
Timebends Timebends
2013
The Fire Next Time The Fire Next Time
1992
Old Greek Stories Old Greek Stories
1987
Giovanni's Room Giovanni's Room
2013
Go Tell It on the Mountain Go Tell It on the Mountain
2013
Six Centuries of English Poetry Six Centuries of English Poetry
1987
If Beale Street Could Talk If Beale Street Could Talk
2006
Story Story
2010
Erasure Erasure
2011
Begin Again Begin Again
2020
Sula Sula
1974
The Left Hand of Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness
1976
Invisible Man Invisible Man
1989