Spike Lee

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de Todd McGowan

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Réalisateur > Spike Lee

Mots Clés

Spike Lee

Année d'édition

2014

Editeur

University of Illinois Press

Collection

Contemporary Film Directors

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 184 pages • 32 €
14 x 21 cm
Egalement disponible en format eBook.

ISBN

978-0-252-07961-0

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same time engaging in substantial political and social commentary. He is arguably the most accomplished African American filmmaker in cinematic history, and his breakthrough paved the way for the success of many other African Americans in film.

In this first single-author scholarly examination of Spike Lee's œuvre, Todd McGowan shows how Lee's films, from She's Gotta Have It through Red Hook Summer, address crucial social issues such as racism, paranoia, and economic exploitation in a formally inventive manner. McGowan argues that Lee uses excess in his films to intervene in issues of philosophy, politics, and art. McGowan contends that it is impossible to watch a Spike Lee film in the way that one watches a typical Hollywood film. By forcing observers to recognize their unconscious enjoyment of violence, paranoia, racism, sexism, and oppression, Lee's films prod spectators to see differently and to confront their own excess. In the process, his films reveal what is at stake in desire, interpersonal relations, work, and artistic creation itself.

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