Allen’s life for his newspaper, the Washington Post. The book leads off with how the author ‘landed’ the front page story of Mr. This book does neither of those things or rather it delivers those things in postage stamp size, meanwhile slipping in its own agenda. From the title I expected, well, either a biography about the butler himself, Eugene Allen, a man in the unique position of having served eight presidents, or, a story of the life that went on around him while he served those eight presidents and first ladies of our country. I can't say I disliked this book but neither was I satisfied by it. With a foreword by the Academy Award nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler not only explores Allen's life and service to eight American Presidents, from Truman to Reagan, but also includes an essay, in the vein of James Baldwin’s jewel The Devil Finds Work, that explores the history of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, and fifty-seven pictures of Eugene Allen, his family, the presidents he served, and the remarkable cast of the movie. Join us for a conversation timely, cinematic, and vital.From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars six Oscar winners, including Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey (honorary and nominee), Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Redgrave, and Robin Williams as well as Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Alex Pettyfer, Alan Rickman, and Liev Schreiber. Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves-from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther-as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America, Haygood makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O. Journalist and acclaimed author of The Butler and Showdown Wil Haygood takes the virtual Greenlight stage to present Colorization, his kaleidoscopic, deeply-researched history of Black cinema. Wil Haygood presents Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series).
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