Spike Lee's America [electronic resource] / David Sterritt.
Sterritt, David.
2013
PN1998.3.L44 S74 2013eb
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Title Spike Lee's America [electronic resource] / David Sterritt.
Author Sterritt, David.
ISBN 9780745676258 electronic bk.
9780745651811
074565181X
9780745651828 (pbk.)
0745651828 (pbk.)
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (254 p.) : ill.
Call Number PN1998.3.L44 S74 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.430233092
Summary Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and 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 easy answers; his pictures are designed to challenge and provoke us, not ease our minds or pacify our emotions. The opening words of his 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing is a vibrant and provocative engagement not only with the work of a great filmmaker, but also with American society and politics.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes filmography (p. [203]-228).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series America through the lens.
Available in Other Form Spike Lee's America.
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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
Expanding horizons.

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