Ellen E. Jones
Screen Deep
How film and TV can solve racism and save the world
Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world.
Screen Deep goes beyond the many film books and anti-racist manuals by demonstrating the connection between these two aspects of modern life. In Screen Deep Ellen E. Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years standing, to ask – and answer – several questions: Is there such a thing as an Indigenous western? Is race comedy ‘cancelled’? Where are all the films for white people? And most importantly: Can you still fight the good fight with a mouthful of popcorn?
Ellen E. Jones is a journalist, broadcaster and long-time Guardian contributor. She is currently the co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Screenshot, the host of the Barbican’s ScreenTalks podcast and writes regularly on film and television for The Guardian, Empire magazine and others. She was formerly a weekly current affairs columnist at the Evening Standard and The Independent on Sunday and the resident critic for BBC One’s Film 2017 and Film 2016.
“A brilliantly readable and insightful book.” — Mark Kermode, The 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.
Ellen E. Jones will be in conversation with Corrina Antrobus and Araminta Hall
