Bibliograph

I am not your negro, A companion edition to the documentary film directed by raoul peck., Velvet Films, Inc.

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I am not your negro, A companion edition to the documentary film directed by raoul peck., Velvet Films, Inc.

Language

eng

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no index present

Intended audience

1000, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I am not your negro

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dictionaries

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 5 - Text Difficulty 7

Responsibility statement

Velvet Films, Inc.

Series statement

Vintage International

Sub title

A companion edition to the documentary film directed by raoul peck.

Summary

National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro , acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been.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 brilliantly 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 a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America. This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film

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