Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro

• Consider the documentary seen in class, Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro. How does the film convey meaning? Does it use devices such as voice-over narration, formal parallels, opening/closing patterns? In other words, how is the film organized around the life of the novelist, poet, and playwright James Baldwin and how does Peck weave Baldwin’s life and writings with the events of his time?

 

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