Introduction: A Long, Long Way
The Birth of a Nation: Seeing the Other as Subhuman
Best Supporting Actors: Casablanca, Friendship, and the Beloved
Community
"That's the Glory of Love": Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and the
Power of Love
Do the Right Thing: Together Are We Going to Live?
Crashing into Each Other: Crash as Multicultural Post-9/11
Fable
Get Out: Black Bodies Matter
Conclusion: Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope
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.
"In this remarkably poignant, deeply relevant book, Garrett handles
his subject-the century-long tortured history of race in American
motion pictures, from Birth of a Nation to Get Out --with an
unusual degree of grace and sensitivity, yet also with probing
scholarly rigor. He shies away from the easy answers, offering in
their place an account that is at once refreshingly honest,
multi-dimensional, and full of nuance." --Noah Isenberg, author
of We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of
Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie
"[T]aking a closer look at the impact films have on society, [A
Long, Long Way] criticizes decades of favorable portrayals of white
supremacist groups and racist depictions of African-Americans in
films. Garrett... argues that movies have altered cultural
perspectives in the same way that religious narratives
have."--Publishers Weekly
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