SCOTT NEUMYER: I really do love this book. Shondaland recently spoke with the author via Zoom to discuss the book, Black cinema, the changing face of history, and the amazing piece of advice he received from the master himself, James Baldwin, more than three decades ago. Colorization is, without a doubt, not only the very best film book of 2021, but it is also one of the best books of the year in any genre. At once a film book, a history book, and a civil rights book, Haygood’s tome is a stunning achievement in every possible way: extensively researched, intricately detailed, beautifully written, and massively entertaining. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and spanning all the way to present-day Hollywood with sections on Black Panther and Jordan Peele, the book is an exhaustive look at the way cinema, race, and history have all changed, commingled, and adapted over the past 100 years. It was on that very film set that the seed was planted for Haygood’s new book, Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World.
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