Spike Lee / by McGowan, Todd

Table of Contents: “…Singular subjects -- Driven by fantasy -- The politics of passion -- Fight the paranoia -- The costs of community -- Depictions of antagonism -- No outside -- Disturbing the spectator -- The effect of Spike Lee -- Interview with Spike Lee / by Lisa Collins.…”
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Spike Lee / by McGowan, Todd

Table of Contents: “…Singular subjects -- Driven by fantasy -- The politics of passion -- Fight the paranoia -- The costs of community -- Depictions of antagonism -- No outside -- Disturbing the spectator -- The effect of Spike Lee -- Interview with Spike Lee / by Lisa Collins.…”
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Spike Lee gets very heated at Kickstarter criticism /

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When the levees broke a requiem in four acts

Table of Contents: “…Special features: Audio commentary by filmmaker Spike Lee -- Next movement : Act V (108 min.) -- Water is rising (8 min.).…”

She hate me

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4 little girls

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Controversial cinema : the films that outraged America by Phillips, Kendall R.

Table of Contents: “…Race and ethnicity : Spike Lee's Do the right thing --…”
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Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter : African American history and representation

Table of Contents: “…Towards a Black prophetic critique of neoliberal state violence : Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the death of Eric Garner /…”
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Millennial masculinity : men in contemporary American cinema

Table of Contents: “…Inside men : Black masculinity in the films of Spike Lee and John Singleton /…”
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Transnational film remakes

Table of Contents: “…Reinterpreting revenge : authorship, excess and the critical reception of Spike Lee's Oldboy /…”
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Black cultural traffic : crossroads in global performance and popular culture

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African Americans and the Oscar : decades of struggle and achievement by Mapp, Edward

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Black directors in Hollywood by Donalson, Melvin Burke, 1952-

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Black directors in Hollywood by Donalson, Melvin Burke, 1952-

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Black masculinity and the U.S. South : from Uncle Tom to gangsta by Richardson, Riché, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Ralph Ellison's rural geography -- 4. Spike Lee's Uncle Toms and urban revolutionaries -- 5. …”
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Irony in the age of empire : comic perspectives on democracy and freedom by Willett, Cynthia, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Laughter against hubris : a preemptive strike -- Laughing to keep from crying : Cornel West, pragmatism, and progressive comedy -- Authenticity in an age of satire : Ellison, Sartre, Bergson, and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Engage the enemy : Cavell, comedies of remarriage, and the politics of friendship -- Three concepts of freedom.…”
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Cool men and the second sex by Fraiman, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Quentin Tarantino: Anatomy of Cool; 2. Spike Lee and Brian De Palma: Scenarios of Race and Rape; 3. …”
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Brooklyn boheme

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The real gaze : film theory after Lacan by McGowan, Todd

Table of Contents: “…Fantasy and showing too much -- Theoretical fantasizing -- The politics of cinematic fantasy -- Early explorations of fantasy -- The coldness of Kubrick -- Spike Lee's fantasmatic explostions -- Michael Mann and the ethics of excess -- The bankruptcy of fantasy in Fellini -- Desire and not showing enough -- Theoretical desiring -- The politics of cinematic desire -- The impossible object of the Nouvelle Vague -- The banality of Orson Welles -- Claire Denis and the other's failure to enjoy -- Political desire in Italian neorealism -- The intermixing of desire and fantasy -- The theoretical opposition -- The politics of the cinema of integration -- The ordinary cinema of Ron Howard -- Steven Spielberg's search for the father -- D.W. …”
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Empire of Sacrifice : the Religious Origins of American Violence. by Pahl, Jon, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Blessed Brutalities; 1 Rethinking Violence and Religion in America; Rethinking "Violence"; Rethinking "Religion"; Rethinking "Religious Violence" in America; 2 Sacrificing Youth: From Reefer Madness to Hostel; Spectacles of Sacrifice in the Cinema of Adolescence; A Theater of Terror, or Innocent Martyrs to the "Beast in the Boudoir"; Beyond Hollywood's Happy Endings; 3 Sacrificing Race: "The Slaveholding Religion" from Jarena Lee to Spike Lee; From Christian Ambivalence to a Total System of Bodily Discipline.…”
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I sing the body politic : history as prophecy in contemporary American literature

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history repeats itself repeats itself -- Stupidity's progress: Philip Roth and twentieth-century American history / David Rampton -- The historature of the American empire: Joseph Heller's Picture this / Peter Swirski -- The American wars: history and prophecy in Vietnam, the Gulf, and Iraq / Michael Zeitlin -- Spike Lee, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X: the politics of domination and difference / Gordon E. …”
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Deconstructive Variations : Music and Reason in Western Society. by Subotnik, Rose Rosengard

Table of Contents: “…A Musical Perspective on Allan Bloom, Spike Lee, and Doing the Right Thing; Notes; Index; Inventory of Endnotes in Chapter 4 Referring to Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind.…”
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I sing the body politic : history as prophecy in contemporary American literature

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history repeats itself repeats itself -- Stupidity's progress: Philip Roth and twentieth-century American history / David Rampton -- The historature of the American empire: Joseph Heller's Picture this / Peter Swirski -- The American wars: history and prophecy in Vietnam, the Gulf, and Iraq / Michael Zeitlin -- Spike Lee, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X: the politics of domination and difference / Gordon E. …”
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Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster

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Street Smart : the New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee. by Blake, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…Mean Streets of Brooklyn and QueensStill Mean in Las Vegas; Back to Manhattan; Other Mean Streets in Manhattan; Comic Turns; Still Other Avenues; On the Other Side of the World; Fort Greene: Spike Lee; The Other Side of Downtown; Moving On; Traces of Fort Greene; The Others; An Odd Kind of Conservative; A Capitalism of Social Responsibility; Gotta Have Bank; Back to Atlanta; Bed-Stuy: The Town Next Door; Back to Fort Greene; From Strivers Row to Benson hurst; The Journey of Malcolm X; Back in Time to Brooklyn; Another View of Brooklyn; Keeping Up the Beat; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “….: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence -- Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple -- Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Jim Crow in Idaho: clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction -- Jim Crow Faulkner: Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again -- Epilogue. …”
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Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “….: Lorraine Hansberry's late segregation revisions and Toni Morrison's early post-civil rights ambivalence -- Jim Crow returns, Jim Crow remains: gender and segregation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Alice Walker's The color purple -- Jim too: black blackface minstrelsy in Wesley Brown's Darktown strutters and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Jim Crow in Idaho: clarifying blackness in multiethnic fiction -- Jim Crow Faulkner: Suzan-Lori Parks digs up the past, again -- Epilogue. …”
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X-ploitation

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Cinema and landscape

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The ghetto : contemporary global issues and controversies

Table of Contents: “…A Janus-faced institution of ethnoracial closure: a sociological specification of the ghetto / Loïc Wacquant -- De-spatialization and dilution of the ghetto: current trends in the United States / Peter Marcuse -- Toward knowing the iconic ghetto / Elijah Anderson -- "You just don't go down there": learning to avoid the ghetto in San Francisco / Nikki Jones and Christina Jackson -- In terms of Harlem / Bruce D. Haynes -- The Spike Lee effect: reimagining the ghetto for cultural consumption / Sharon Zukin -- Places of stigma: ghettos, barrios, and banlieues / Ernesto Castañeda -- On the absence of ghettos in Latin American cities / Alan Gilbert -- Divided cities: rethinking the ghetto in light of the Brazilian favela / Brasilmar Ferreira Nunes and Leticia Veloso -- Demonstrations at work: some notes from urban Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone -- From refuge the ghetto is born: contemporary figures of heterotopias / Michel Agier -- Where is the Chicago ghetto? …”
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Parallel lines : post-9/11 American cinema by Westwell, Guy

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Fifty contemporary film directors

Table of Contents: “…Pedro Almodóvar -- Wes Anderson -- Aoyama Shinji -- Gregg Araki -- Luc Besson -- Kathryn Bigelow -- Charles Burnett -- Tim Burton -- James Cameron -- Jane Campion -- Gurinder Chadha -- Jackie Chan -- The Coen brothers -- Sofia Coppola -- David Cronenberg -- Julie Dash -- Guillermo del Toro -- Atom Egoyan -- David Fincher -- Hal Hartley -- Todd Haynes -- Peter Jackson -- Jim Jarmusch -- Neil Jordan -- Aki Kaurismäki -- Abbas Kiarostami -- Ang Lee -- Spike Lee -- David Lynch -- Michael Mann -- Shane Meadows -- Hayao Miyazaki -- Michael Moore -- Mira Nair -- François Ozon -- Park Chan-Wook -- Sally Potter -- John Sayles -- Martin Scorsese -- Steven Soderbergh -- Todd Solondz -- Steven Spielberg -- Oliver Stone -- Quentin Tarantino -- Lars Von Trier -- Gus Van Sant -- Wong Kar-wai -- John Woo -- Zhang Yimou -- Zhang Yuan.…”
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Closely watched films : an introduction to the art of narrative film technique by Fabe, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…7 Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut's The 400 Blows8 Hollywood Auteur: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious; 9 The European Art Film: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2; 10 Film and Postmodernism: Woody Allen's Annie Hall; 11 Political Cinema: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing; 12 Feminism and Film Form: Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing; 13 Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative: Mike Figgis's Timecode and James Cameron's Avatar; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film by Davies, Jude

Table of Contents: “…The function of race in constructions of American ethnicity ; Negative, positive and interrogative images ; 'The new racism' and cultural politics in the 1990s ; Glory: African American history as male rites of passage ; Tensioned and interlocking identities in Daughters of the dust ; Iconicity: image and narrative in Spike Lee's Malcom X.…”
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Post-soul satire : black identity after civil rights

Table of Contents: “…: trickster aesthetic and satirical strategies in two plays by Lynn Nottage / Aimee Zygmonski -- Satirizing satire: symbolic violence and subversion in Spike Lee's Bamboozled / Luvena Kopp -- Charlie Murphy: American storyteller / James J. …”
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Spike, Mike, slackers & dykes : a guided tour across a decade of American independent cinema by Pierson, John

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Black on earth : African American ecoliterary traditions by Ruffin, Kimberly N., 1969-

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Black on earth : African American ecoliterary traditions by Ruffin, Kimberly N., 1969-

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Whose lives are they anyway? : the biopic as contemporary film genre by Bingham, Dennis, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould: ghost picture -- Ed Wood: the biopic of someone undeserving -- Spike Lee's Malcolm X: appropriation or assimilation? …”
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