Packet 1: Tossup 20

This author trashed the I Shall Spit on Your Graves adaptation that was so bad it killed Boris Vian in a long essay that begins with a childhood memory of “Joan Crawford’s straight, narrow, and lonely back.” This author speaks with a group of West Indian students in an impromptu documentary by Horace Ové. This author described (15[1])how the same loyal maid archetype appears in The Birth (15[1])of the Nation and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in (*) The Devil Finds Work. Studio interference led this author to abandon a screenplay that later became Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X. This author noted that Carmen Jones is at pains to desexualize (10[1])Harry Belafonte in a collection that also compares Uncle Tom and Bigger Thomas. For 10 points, name this author of Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time. ■END■

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