TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldwin,James
TI  - The devil finds work: an essay 
SN  - 9780307275950
AV  - PS 3552 B181d 2011
U1  - 814 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage International
KW  - Baldwin, James,
KW  - Motion picture plays, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African Americans in motion pictures
N2  - 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, From The Birth of a Nation to The Exorcist--one of America's most important writers turns his critical eye to American film
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1301/2011456826-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1301/2011456826-s.html
ER  -