The Spike Lee Reader
Massood, Paula J. (EDT)
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BOOK 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.
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Paula J. Massood is Associate Professor of Film Studies, Department of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and author of Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film (Temple).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Spike Lee Reader
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
We've Gotta Have It: Spike Lee, African American Film, and Cinema Studies
Paula J. Massood
Chapter 1'Whose Pussy is This': A Feminist Comment
bell hooks
Chapter 2 Programming with School Daze
Toni Cade Bambara
Chapter 3 Spike Lee and Black Women
Michele Wallace
Chapter 4 But Compared to What?: Reading Realism, Representation, and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse
Wahneema Lubiano
Chapter 5 The Double Truth, Ruth: Do the Right Thing and the Culture of Ambiguity
James C. McKelly
Chapter 6 Spike Lee and the Fever in the Racial Jungle
Ed Guerrero
Chapter 7'Spike, Don't Mess Malcolm Up': Courting Controversy and Control in Malcolm X-The Movie
Anna Everett
Chapter 8 Through the Looking Glass and Over the Rainbow: Exploring the Fairy Tale in Spike Lee's Crooklyn
Mark D. Cunningham
Chapter 9 Clockers (Spike Lee 1995): Adaptation in Black
Keith M. Harris
Chapter 10 Reel Men: Get on the Bus and the Shifting Terrain of Black Masculinities
S. Craig Watkins
Chapter 11 We Shall Overcome: Preserving History and Memory in 4 Little Girls
Christine Acham
Chapter 12 Spike Lee Meets Aaron Copeland
Krin Gabbard
Chapter 13 Race and Black American Film Noir: Summer of Sam as Lynching Parable
Dan Flory
Chapter 14 Racial Kitsch and Black Performance
Tavia Nyong'o
Chapter 15 I Be Smackin' My Hoes': Paradox and Authenticity in Bamboozled
Beretta Smith-Shomade
Chapter 16 De Profundis: A Love letter from the Inside Man
David Gerstner
Notes on Contributors
Select Bibliography
Filmography (including exec. prod. credits and television segments)
Index
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 159213484X
ISBN(13-digit): 9781592134847
Dewey Decimal: 791.43/023308996073
Library of Congress: 2007021066
Book Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 276
