Screen Deep

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 ScreenTalks podcast and writes regularly on film and television for the Guardian and Empire magazine. She was formerly TV critic at the Independent, a current affairs columnist at the Evening Standard,i Paper 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.