Spike Lee's America

Name: Spike Lee's America
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ISBN: 9780745651828

ISBN-10: 0745651828

ISBN-13: 9780745651828

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Sterritt

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Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, richly multifaceted portrait of American society. As the only African–American filmmaker ever to establish a world–class career, Lee has paid acute attention to the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities. But white men and women also play important roles in his movies, and his interest in class, race, and urban life hasn’t prevented his films from ranging over broad swaths of the American scene in stories as diverse as the audiences who view them. His defining trait is a willingness to raise hard questions about contemporary America without pretending to have…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Challenging Questions, No Easy Answers



The Early Joints



The Right Thing and the Love Supreme



Deeper into Politics



Brownstones in the Nabe, Projects in the Hood



Women and Men, Blacks and Whites



Crime, War, Miracles


Epilogue: Expanding Horizons


Notes


Filmography


References


Index