Author: Baldwin, James
Brand: VINTAGE
Edition: Media Tie In
Features:
- VINTAGE
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 118
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 07-02-2017
Details: Product Description National BestsellerNominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwinโs published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck brilliantly imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peckโs film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwinโs private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America. This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film. Review โ I Am Not Your Negro is a kaleidoscopic journey through the life and mind of James Baldwin, whose voice speaks even more powerfully today than it did 50 years ago. . . . He was the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity. . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence.โ โ Variety โA searing and topical indictment of racial prejudice and hatred in America that makes for uneasy viewing and is not easily forgotten. . . . Vividly intelligent.โ โ Hollywood Reporter โA striking work of storytelling. . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made. . . . This might be the only movie about race relations that adequately explainsโwith sympathyโthe root causes.โ โ The Guardian โThrilling. . . . A portrait of one manโs confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, โdevastated my universe.โโฆ One of the best movies you are likely to see this year.โ โ The New York Times About the Author JAMES BALDWIN (1924โ1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement.ย Baldwinย spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of theย United States.ย He died in 1987. RAOUL PECK is a filmmaker acclaimed for his historical, political, and artistic work. Haitian-born, he grew up in Congo, France, Germany, and the United States. His body of work includes the films The Man by the Shore (Competition, Cannes 1993); Lumumba (Cannes 2000, HBO); and Sometimes in April (2005, HBO). He is currently chairman of the French national film school, La Fรฉmis, and recently completed his next feature film, The Young Karl Marx (2017). Excerpt. ยฉ Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. As concerns Malcolm and Martin, I watched two men, coming from unimaginably different backgrounds, whose positions, originally, were poles apart, driven closer and closer together. By the time each died, their positions had become virtually the same position. It can be said, indeed, that Martin picked up Malcolmโs burden, articulated the vision which Malcolm had begun to see, and for which he paid with his life. And that Malcolm was one of the people Martin saw on the mountaintop. Medgar was too young to have seen this happen,though he hoped for it, and would not have been surprised; but Medgar was murdered first. I was older than Medgar, Malcolm, and Martin. I was raised to believe that the eldest was supposed to be a model for the younger, and was, of course, expected to die first. Not one of these three lived to be forty.
EAN: 9780525434696
Package Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Languages: English
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