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The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin

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The Devil Finds Work is a book length essay by writer James Baldwin. Published in 1976, it is both a memoir of his experiences watching movies and a critique of the racial politics of American cinema. It opens with a discussion of a Joan Crawford film,...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Devils Find A Cure
01/16/1999: 785 words, approx. 3 pages
MARK J. CZERWINSKI, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-16-1999 DEVILS FIND A CURE -- RIP LIGHTNING TO END SLIDE By MARK J. CZERWINSKI, Staff Writer Date: 01-16-1999, Saturday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Devils find groove
01/28/2004: 695 words, approx. 2 pages
TOM GULITTI, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-28-2004 Devils find groove -- Doing just fine minus Stevens By TOM GULITTI, STAFF WRITER Date: 01-28-2004, Wednesday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B COLUMBUS,...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Wilfrid Sheed
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In the following essay, which was published in 1977 in Commonweal, Sheed complains that the tone of Baldwin's The Devil Finds Work sounds false and that the subject of movies does not support the book's religious undertone.
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Critical Essay by Eric Rhode
378 words, approx. 1 pages
[With The Devil Finds Work] James Baldwin has written a commentary on the movies as visionary, and unusual, as D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classical American Literature. The nature of his theme is hinted at in a recalling of a moment (the moment) of apostasy—when Baldwin decided to go to a proscribed theatre matinée, and in so doing, put in peril his religious calling…. He sees The Exorcist as an example of the power to possess that movies may have in an age almost without faith&...
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Critical Essay by Frederic Raphael
274 words, approx. 1 pages
The Devil Finds Work is a sermon with a celluloid text…. To take the movies as a source for instances of wilful bad faith is hardly a case of tendentiousness….


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