Binding: Paperback
Description: Spike Lee has directed written produced and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive nuanced proudly opinionated and richly multifaceted portrait of American society. As the only African - American filmmaker ever to establish a world - class career Lee has paid acute attention to the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities. But white men and women also play important roles in his movies and his interest in class race and urban life hasn t prevented his films from ranging over broad swaths of the American scene in stories as diverse as the audiences who view them. His defining trait is a willingness to raise hard questions about contemporary America without pretending to have easy answers; his pictures are designed to challenge and provoke us not ease our minds or pacify our emotions. The opening words of his 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing present his core message in two emphatic syllables: Wake up! Spike Lee's America is a vibrant and provocative engagement not only with the work of a great filmmaker but also with American society and politics.
Title: Spike Lee's America
Author(s): Sterritt David (National Society Of Film Critics)
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9780745651828
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 1/14/2013
Series: America Through the Lens
Category: Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers