Title
Spike Lee : that's my story and I'm sticking to it / as told to Kaleem Aftab.
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
0393061531
Publication Details
New York : W.W. Norton, 2005.
Language
English
Description
viii, 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Item Number
9780393061536
Call Number
PN1998.3.L44 A63 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.43/0233/092 B
Summary
Lee is the provocative director whose pioneering films--from Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever to Malcolm X--helped transform the face of late twentieth-century America. Since bursting onto the scene in 1986 with the sexually provocative She's Gotta Have It, He has been one of America's most visionary and controversial cinematic figures. With film critic Kaleem Aftab, Lee chronicles his explosive rise to stardom, exploring such important issues as Black Nationalism, Hollywood stereotyping, and the rise of a powerful black middle class. With Lee family interviews and the candid revelations of stars like Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Norton, John Turturro, Rosie Perez, and Wesley Snipes, this book is the story of a visionary life in the cinema, telling us as much about Lee as it does about the past two decades of American social history.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. 40 acres and a mule
2. The early years
3. She's gotta have it
4. School daze
5. Do the right thing
6. Mo' better blues
7. Jungle fever
8. Malcolm X
9. Crooklyn
10. Clockers
11. Girl 6
12. Get on the bus and 4 little girls
13. He got game
14. Summer of Sam
15. Original kings of comedy, bamboozled, a Huey P. Newton story and Jim Brown
16. The 25th hour
17. Sucker free city and she hate me
Epilogue.
