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1. • • But Easy Rawlins, who lives in the 1940s, is a modern fictional creation, born in the recent novels of Walter Mosley.
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   • Carl Franklin's " Devil in a Blue Dress ," based on the novel by Walter Mosley, is a film that hits all these beats and then some, but it is not cookie-cutter film noir. For one thing, it was released in 1995, decades after the heyday of the genre.

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   Who wrote Devil in a blue dress?

   • "Devil in a Blue Dress" was the debut novel for both the character of Easy Rawlins and his creator, author Walter Mosley. Easy (short for Ezekiel) is a veteran and recently laid-off factory worker living in 1948 Los Angeles.

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   • Devil in a Blue Dress is a story about an era of strict parameters for Black people’s freedom; it was adapted for the screen during an overdue period of growth in Black cinema, and at a time when Black people generally had more autonomy.

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   • Devil in a Blue Dress premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 16, 1995. In the United States, it opened in wide release on September 29, 1995. In its widest release the film was featured in 1,432 theaters across the country. Devil in a Blue Dress was released on VHS in April 1996, and then on laserdisc in June.

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   Aug 6, 2022 · Carl Franklin's "Devil in a Blue Dress," based on the novel by Walter Mosley, is a film that hits all these beats and then some, but it is not cookie-cutter film noir. For one thing, it was...

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   Jul 20, 2022 · Devil in a Blue Dress explicitly confronts the racialized implications of classic noir’s dichotomy between polite society and dark, shadowy underworlds. Its social critique is brutally honest and sharply targeted; race is both the organizing principle of its power structure and its central mystery.

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   Dec 17, 2020 · Walter Mosley on Devil in a Blue Dress, Thirty Years Later "He has been stopped by a thousand disrespectful policemen and he has brought to light the truths that America, from white nationalists to the Ivy League, has tried its best to hide."

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   Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley, his first published book. The text centers on the main character, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, and his transformation from a day laborer into a detective.

   • Author: Walter Mosley

   • Publish Year: 1990

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   Apr 23, 2024 · Written and directed by Carl Franklin, Devil in a Blue Dress is based on Walter Mosley's 1990 novel of the same name.

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   Jul 22, 2022 · Devil in a Blue Dress follows Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins (Denzel Washington), a World War II veteran trying to make it after the war by moving to Los Angeles to work as a machinist. He’s not a typical film noir lead with a tragic backstory. Instead, Rawlins is simply trying to pay off his mortgage.

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    Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Carl Franklin, based on Walter Mosley's 1990 novel of the same name and features Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.