A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation

ISBN-13: 9780190906252 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 248 str.

Greg Garrett

Recenzje

This book's dust jacket describes the author's method: "Greg Garrett brings [to bear] his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism." ... The present volume looks at the representation of African Americans in six films: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Casablanca (1943), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Do the Right Thing (1989), Crash (2004), and Get Out (2017). Garrett's "theologically motivated cultural criticism" amounts to a well-written, sensible description of each film, followed by an extended theological reflection. ... Garrett is not that interested in conversing with film scholars who write about race. Instead his framework is theological: "Love is the most important force in the universe, the power that animates it, and the power that animates us" (p. 104)

O autorze

Greg Garrett is the author of four acclaimed novels, two books of memoir, and twenty nonfiction works on faith, politics, race, culture, and narrative, and is, according to BBC Radio, one of America's essential voices on religion and culture. An award-winning Professor of English at Baylor University, Greg also serves as Theologian in Residence at the American Cathedral in Paris, and is an elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters. He lives in Austin with his wife Jeanie and their family.