The Devil Finds Work
Baldwin on the movies he grew up on, and what they were quietly teaching him about himself.
Baldwin works through the films he watched growing up in Harlem and the ones he saw as an adult, from The Birth of a Nation to In the Heat of the Night and The Exorcist, using each to examine what American cinema was teaching audiences about race. It is criticism, autobiography and political argument braided together, a mode now common and then largely his.
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Isaac Butler
The Devil Finds Work is a slim volume that will have you rethinking the relationship between film, politics, and identity over and over again.
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