Bibliograph

I am not your Negro, a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck, from texts by James Baldwin ; compiled and edited by Raoul Peck

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Label

I am not your Negro, a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck, from texts by James Baldwin ; compiled and edited by Raoul Peck

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I am not your Negro

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

962548220

Responsibility statement

from texts by James Baldwin ; compiled and edited by Raoul Peck

Sub title

a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck

Summary

To compose his documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been.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 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. Peck's film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin's private words with his public statements in an examination of the tragic history of race in America

Table Of Contents

Introduction : on a personal note / by Raoul Peck -- There are new metaphors : meeting Gloria (Baldwin Karefa-Smart) -- Notes on the writing process -- Editing I am not your Negro -- Paying my dues -- Heroes -- Witness -- Purity -- Selling the Negro -- I am not a nigger

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