@article{741243, note = {Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.}, author = {Lee, Spike, and Willmott, Kevin, and Cannon, Nick, and Snipes, Wesley, and Parris, Teyonah, and Hudson, Jennifer, and Bassett, Angela, and Harris, Steve, and Lennix, Harry J., and Sweeney, D. B. and Cusack, John, and Jackson, Samuel L., and Blanchard, Terence, and Libatique, Matthew, and Denmark, Ryan, and Garcia, Maija, and Aristophanes.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/741243}, title = {Chi-Raq [videorecording] /}, abstract = {Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago's South Side creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.}, recid = {741243}, pages = {1 videodisc (127 min.) :}, }