The Spike Lee reader / edited by Paula J. Massood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Massood, Paula J., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lee, Spike--Criticism and interpretation.

Lee, Spike.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Taken together, the essays in The Spike Lee Reader will spark dialogue and& encourage a continuing consideration of the depth and complexity of Spike Lee's career.

Contents:

We've gotta have it

Spike Lee, African American film, and cinema studies / Paula J. Massood

"Whose pussy is this" : a feminist comment / Bell Hooks

Programming with School daze / Toni Cade Bambara

Spike Lee and Black women / Michele Wallace

But compared to what? reading realism, representation, and essentialism in School daze, Do the right thing, and the Spike Lee discourse / Wahneema Lubiano

The double truth, Ruth : Do the right thing and the culture of ambiguity / James C. McKelly

Spike Lee and the fever in the racial jungle / Ed Guerrero

"Spike, don't mess Malcolm up" : courting controversy and control in Malcolm X / Anna Everett

Through the looking glass and over the rainbow : exploring the fairy tale in Spike Lee's Crooklyn / Mark D. Cunningham

Clockers (Spike Lee 1995) : adaptation in black / Keith M. Harris

Reel men : Get on the bus and the shifting terrain of Black masulinities / S. Craig Watkins

We shall overcome : preserving history and memory in 4 little girls / Christine Acham

Spike Lee meets Aaron Copland / Krin Gabbard

Race and Black American film noir : Summer of Sam as lynching parable / Dan Flory

Racial kitsch and Black performance / Tavia Nyong'o

"I be smackin' my hoes" : paradox and authenticity in Bamboozled / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade

De profundis : a love letter from the inside man / David A. Gerstner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-263) and index.

Includes filmography: pages [255]-258.

ISBN:

9781592134847

159213484X

9781592134854

1592134858

OCLC:

137246022

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