"Gedachten van de Amerikaanse negerauteur (geb. 1924) over de inhoud van een aantal Amerikaanse films en in het bijzonder over de verhouding blank-zwart zoals die in deze films wordt gepresenteerd."
"Essayist James Baldwin examines racism in American movies. Challenges the underlying assumptions in films such as "In the Heat of the Night," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," and "The Exorcist." Explores the love, hate, bias, cruelty, fear, and ignorance reflected in films that have shaped the national consciousness."
"Studies how racism has been portrayed in American movies, and discusses how Hollywood's views about racism have influenced the rest of the nation."@en
"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."@en
"The influential author and essayist examines hidden strains of racism in popular American films, from The Birth of a Nation to In the Heat of the Night and The Exorcist."@en