The Spike Lee Reader

by Paula Massood

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592134854
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	02/15/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

"The Spike Lee Reader includes new and several well-known pieces previously published about Lee’s work. The previously published pieces work seamlessly with the newer additions. These pieces provide a foundation to remind readers of the discourse established in response to the first decade of his career concerning representations of gender, sexuality, and class.... The Spike Lee Reader is a necessary addition to the library of researchers and scholars in film and cultural studies. It is also a theoretically rich, interdisciplinary text that will be of use for upper division undergraduate and graduate courses on film, popular culture, and Ethnic Studies."
—American Studies

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