The Devil Finds Work
Book by James Baldwin
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Author | James Baldwin |
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Language | English |
Genre | Essay |
Publisher | The Dial Press |
Publication date | 1976 |
Publication place | United States |
The Devil Finds Work is a book-length essay by writer James Baldwin.[1] Published in 1976, it is both a memoir of his experiences watching movies and a critique of the racial politics of American cinema.[2]
Synopsis
The book opens with a discussion of a Joan Crawford film, which was the first movie Baldwin could remember seeing, and ends with a discussion of The Exorcist, which came out in 1973. Among the other movies discussed are Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967) and The Defiant Ones (1958).
See also
- African-American representation in Hollywood
- Film criticism
References
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Works by James Baldwin
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
- Giovanni's Room (1956)
- Another Country (1962)
- Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)
- Just Above My Head (1979)
- The Amen Corner (1954)
- Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
- Going to Meet the Man (1965)
- "The Rockpile"
- "The Outing"
- "The Man Child"
- "Previous Condition"
- "Sonny's Blues"
- "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon"
- "Come Out the Wilderness"
- "Going to Meet the Man"
- Notes of a Native Son (1955)
- Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
- The Fire Next Time (1963)
- Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White (1967)
- No Name in the Street (1972)
- The Devil Finds Work (1976)
- The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985)
- The Price of the Ticket (1985)
- Remember This House (unfinished)
- A Rap on Race (1971)
- A Dialogue (1973)
- Little Man Little Man (1976)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1984)
- I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018; accolades)
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