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Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world
A stunning exploration of the world-changing power of screen-storytelling. Winner in the Moving Image category of the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards.
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Summary
‘A brilliantly readable and insightful book.’ Mark Kermode, Observer
‘Deftly, delightfully, yet inexorably, Ellen E Jones shows us exactly what’s wrong with the world as we usually see it on screen. With her big love of cinema and her very big brain, she’s the best film critic in a generation.’ Lucy Worsley
Is race comedy ‘cancelled’?
Is there such a thing as an Indigenous Western?
Where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?
Ellen E. Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years to ask and answer these questions. Screen Deep illuminates the immense potential of screen storytelling to challenge societal racism, and ultimately defeat it.
Critic Reviews
A brilliantly readable and insightful book.
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Clear and engaging . . . refreshingly nuanced . . . Fresh and compelling.
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Jones navigates a history of cultural racism assiduously, ranging from The Birth of a Nation to blackface in sharp, brisk prose.
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Screen Deep is, put simply, a great book. Personal, passionate, provocative and very difficult to put down.
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Screen Deep is a forensic dive into film and TV race politics from The Birth of a Nation and Imitation of Life to Bridgerton. A wonderful, enlightening read.
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Deftly, delightfully, yet inexorably, Ellen E Jones shows us exactly what's wrong with the world as we usually see it on screen. With her big love of cinema and her very big brain, she's the best film critic in a generation.
Ellen E.Jones
ELLEN E. JONES is a journalist and broadcaster. She is the co-host of Screenshot, the BBC’s flagship film and TV programme, the host of the Barbican’s ScreenTalks podcast and writes regularly on film and television for the Guardian and Empire magazine. She was formerly TV critic at the Independent, a current affairs columnist at the Evening Standard, i Paper and Independent on Sunday and…
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