Sterritt Spike Lee's America

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6347-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: PALS-Polity America Through the Lens series

Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozensof films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated,and richly multifaceted portrait of American society. As the onlyAfrican-American filmmaker ever to establish a world-class career,Lee has paid acute attention to the experiences of racial andethnic minorities. But white men and women also play importantroles in his movies, and his interest in class, race, and urbanlife hasn't prevented his films from ranging over broadswaths of the American scene in stories as diverse as the audienceswho view them. His defining trait is a willingness to raise hardquestions about contemporary America without pretending to haveeasy answers; his pictures are designed to challenge and provokeus, not ease our minds or pacify our emotions. The opening words ofhis 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing present his coremessage in two emphatic syllables: "Wake up!"Spike Lee's America is a vibrant and provocativeengagement not only with the work of a great filmmaker, but alsowith American society and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sterritt, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: Challenging Questions, No Easy Answers 1
1 The Early Joints 13
2 The Right Thing and the Love Supreme 41
3 Deeper into Politics 90
4 Brownstones in the Nabe, Projects in the Hood 117
5 Women and Men, Blacks and Whites 135
6 Crime, War, Miracles 167
Epilogue: Expanding Horizons 190
Notes 194
Filmography 203
References 229
Index 245

Über Autor(innen)

David Sterritt is Chair of the National Society of Film Critics and Professor at Columbia University and the Maryland Institute College of Art.