Screen Deep
Author | : Ellen E. Jones |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2024-01-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780571369430 |
ISBN-13 | : 057136943X |
Rating | : 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world. Screen Deep goes beyond the many film books and anti-racist manuals by demonstrating the connection between these two aspects of modern life. In Screen Deep Ellen E. Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years standing, to ask - and answer - several questions: Is there such a thing as an Indigenous western? Is race comedy 'cancelled'? Where are all the films for white people? And most importantly: Can you still fight the good fight with a mouthful of popcorn?