The Spike Lee Brand

Download or read book The Spike Lee Brand written by Delphine Letort and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre. In this groundbreaking book, Delphine Letort sheds light on a neglected part of Spike Lee’s filmmaking by offering a rare look at his creative engagement with the genre of documentary filmmaking. Ranging from history to sports and music, Lee has tackled a diversity of topics in such nonfiction films as 4 Little Girls, A Huey P. Newton Story, Jim Brown: All-American, and When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Letort analyzes the narrative and aesthetic discourses that structure these films and calls attention to Lee’s technical skills and narrative-framing devices. Drawing on film and media studies, African American studies, and cultural theories, she examines the sociological value of Lee’s investigations into contemporary culture and also explores the ethics of his commitment to a genre characterized by its claim to truth. “The Spike Lee Brand makes a very important contribution to scholarly studies on the film-work of Spike Lee [and] places Lee in the pantheon of important social political documentarians such as Claude Lanzmann and Emile de Antonio.” — from the Foreword by Mark A. Reid

Download or read book Spike written by Spike Lee and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This career-spanning monograph is a visual celebration of Spike Lee's life and career to date. Featuring hundreds of never-before-seen photographs by David Lee, Spike's brother, this book includes behind-the-scenes, insider images that underscore his creative process, and his significant impact on the culture at large. Print run 15,000.

Download or read book Please, Baby, Please written by Spike Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go back to bed, baby, please, baby, please. Not on your HEAD, baby baby baby, please ... From moments fussy to fond, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee, present a behind-the-scenes look at the chills, spills, and unequivocal thrills of bringing up baby Vivid illustrations from celebrated artist Kadir Nelson evoke toddlerhood from sandbox to high chair to crib, and families everywhere will delight in sharing these exuberant moments again and again.

Download or read book Spike Lee written by Kaleem Aftab and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The provocative filmmaker describes his early achievements in the 1986 film, She's Gotta Have It, through his contributions to such movies as Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X, in a personal portrait complemented by numerous firsthand accounts that also discuss the role of race in his work and his relationships with famous stars. Reprint.

Download or read book Do the Right Thing written by Spike Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent film She's Gotta Have It. In the few short years following this stellar debut he has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the film industry and in American popular culture. This book reveals Spike Lee as a Hollywood iconoclast and gifted visionary and takes us though the dramatic sequence of events that brought the movie Do The Right Thing to fruition. It is a testimonial to his developing genius, written in the stingingly funny and informed language of Spike Lee.

Download or read book Five for Five written by Terry McMillan and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical and interpretive tribute to the work of film maker Spike Lee. Essays by African-American writers - Terry McMillan, Toni Cade Bambara, Nelson George, Charles Johnson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Melvin Van Peebles - accompany production stills taken by David Lee.

Download or read book Uplift the Race written by Spike Lee and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1988 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spike Lee rises again. This time, he and Lisa Jones document his transition from struggling independent to mainstream filmmaker with the making of the Columbia Pictures film, School Daze. No longer working with a small cast and a painfully tight budget, Spike Lee and his crew find themselves working in a swirl of university politics, a cast of thousands, big musical production numbers and the not-insignificant pressures of coming up with a hit in the majors. He "uplifts the race" by demystifying the process of producing an entertaining commercial film that, at the same time, delivers a stinging - yet funny - critique on American culture.