Spike Lee by McGowan, Todd

Spike Lee

Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a...
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Author: Todd McGowan
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Language: English
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Spike Lee by McGowan, Todd

Spike Lee

Dhs. 197.60

Spike Lee

Dhs. 197.60
Author: Todd McGowan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 oeuvre, 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.



Author: Todd McGowan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 01/07/2014
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.59w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780252079610


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 89

About the Author
Todd McGowan is associate professor of English at the University of Vermont and author of Out of Time: The Ethics of Atemporal Cinema.


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