Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world

Ellen E. Jones

Hardcover | 15.8 x 3 x 24.2 cm | 384 pp

Faber & Faber | 2024 | 9780571369423

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 and broadcaster. She is the co-host of Screenshot, the BBC's flagship film and TV programme, the host of the Barbican's Screen Talks podcast and she writes regularly on film and television for the Guardian and Empire magazine. She was formerly a TV critic at the Independent, a current affairs columnist at the Evening Standard and Independent on Sunday and the resident critic for BBC One's Film 2017 and Film 2016. Her writing has been published in a wide variety of other outlets, including NME, The Times, Sunday Times, Radio Times and National Geographic.