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What he witnessed blackness film spectatorship & james baldwins the devil

What He Witnessed: Blackness, Film Spectatorship, and James Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work

Published On

August 16 2022

Author

Michael Boyce Gillespie

Sedat Pakay (Turkish, 1945–2016), James Baldwin by His Typewriter, Istanbul, 1966, 1966, gelatin silver print, 10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (27.8 × 35.4 cm)

James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: An Essay (New York: Dial, 1976), first edition

Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night (1967), production still. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library.

Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones (1958), production still. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library.