Includes a foreword by Spike Lee, the screenplay for the film Poetic Justice (starring Janet Jackson), poetry by Maya Angelou, and sixteen pages of photographs from the set At twenty-four, John Singleton became the youngest filmmaker and only African American to ever be nominated for Best Director (and Best Screenplay) for Boyz N the Hood, his debut feature film. Only a year after receiving such sensational acclaim, Singleton returned to the Hood with Poetic Justice, a movie starring Janet Jackson and featuring the poetry of Maya Angelou. In this...
Includes a foreword by Spike Lee, the screenplay for the film Poetic Justice (starring Janet Jackson), poetry by Maya Angelou, and sixteen p...
Spike Lee tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director, whose pioneering films from "Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever," and "Malcolm X" to "25th Hour," "Bamboozled," and "The Inside Man" helped transform the face of late twentieth-century America. With unprecedented access to the Lee family and new interviews with stars and celebrities including Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Rosie Perez, Adrien Brody, John Turturro, and many others film critic Kaleem Aftab chronicles Spike Lee's explosive rise to stardom, exploring such important issues as Black Nationalism, Hollywood...
Spike Lee tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director, whose pioneering films from "Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever," and "Malcolm X" to ...
The best shooter and the sharpest tongue in the NBA offers his take on such topics as the New York Knicks, the mental side of the game, determination, and his sister, Cheryl.
The best shooter and the sharpest tongue in the NBA offers his take on such topics as the New York Knicks, the mental side of the game, determination,...
Since his first feature movie, She's Gotta Have It (1986), gave him critical and commercial success, Spike Lee has challenged audiences with one controversial film after another, sparking debates about race, sex, American politics and film production, and garnering award nominations along the way.
Spike Lee: Interviews collects the best interviews and profiles of America's most prominent African American filmmaker. The collection features interviews with such luminaries as Charlie Rose, Elvis Mitchell, Michael Sragow, and actor Delroy Lindo.
Lee has made a broad range of...
Since his first feature movie, She's Gotta Have It (1986), gave him critical and commercial success, Spike Lee has challenged audiences wit...
Now in paperback, the astounding and poignant account of how a Katrina survivor and her husband lived through one of our nation's worst disasters--and continue to put their lives back together today. A driving force in Spike Lee's acclaimed and hardhitting HBO documentary When the Levees Broke, Phyllis Montana-Leblanc became the outspoken voice of Katrina survivors everywhere. In her gut-wrenching memoir, Not Just the Levees Broke, she reveals the impending doom that she and her family experienced during one of the greatest disasters in contemporary American history. From the...
Now in paperback, the astounding and poignant account of how a Katrina survivor and her husband lived through one of our nation's worst disasters--...
Shelton Jackson Spike Lee is one of the most culturally influential and provocative film directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together seminal writings - from classic scholarship to new research - this book focuses on this revolutionary film auteur and cultural provocateur to explore contemporary questions around issues of race, politics, sexuality, gender roles, filmmaking, commercialism, celebrity, and the role of media in public discourse. Situating Lee as an important contributor to a variety of American discourses, the book highlights his commitment to...
Shelton Jackson Spike Lee is one of the most culturally influential and provocative film directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringi...
