Barry's Reviews > The Devil Finds Work: An Essay

Baldwin here analyzes several films, and a few books, and discusses what they say— or refuse to say— about American society, specifically with regard to race. If you’ve read Baldwin before you’ll know to expect his writing to be clear and captivating, and his critiques to be perceptive and provocative.

He remarks upon a number of movies, but these are the films which he discusses in detail:

The Birth of a Nation
In the Heat of the Night
The Defiant Ones
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Laurence of Arabia
My Son, John
Lady Sings the Blues
The Exorcist