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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
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.