Spike Lee : that's my story and I'm sticking to it /
Aftab, Kaleem.
Spike Lee : that's my story and I'm sticking to it / as told to Kaleem Aftab. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2005. - viii, 324 p. : ill. 25 cm.
Includes index.
1. 40 acres and a mule -- 2. The early years -- 3. She's gotta have it -- 4. School daze -- 5. Do the right thing -- 6. Mo' better blues -- 7. Jungle fever -- 8. Malcolm X --9. Crooklyn -- 10. Clockers -- 11. Girl 6 -- 12. Get on the bus and 4 little girls -- 13. He got game -- 14. Summer of Sam -- 15. Original kings of comedy, Bamboozled, A Huey P. Newton story and Jim Brown -- 16. 25th hour -- 17. Sucker free city and She hate me -- Epilogue.
also the inspirational affect Lee has had upon his own and subsequent generations of black film-makers (he gave Halle Berry her first break, and early lead roles to Denzel Washington and Samuel Jackson). Every one of Lee's films has tackled a subject and caused a stir: from female sexuality in She's Gotta Have It to New York race riots in Do the Right Thing and jazz in Mo' Better Blues black poverty and pro-basketball in He Got Game...As such Lee has made himself a spokesman on US race relations, but he is also an entrepreneur and a provocateur. This biography, prepared with Lee's co-operation and with input from his friends, family and collaborators, tells the extraordinary life story of a true American original. www.alibris.com interracial sex in Jungle Fever Louis Farrakhan's 'Million Man March' in Get on the Bus revolutionary pan-Africanism in Malcolm X the 'War on Drugs' in Clockers Kaleem Aftab's authorised biography of Lee chronicles his film work in definitive detail, but also explores the many social issues and controversies that the work has addressed and generated
393061531
African American motion picture producers and directors
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
PN 1998.3.L44 / .Af89 2005
Spike Lee : that's my story and I'm sticking to it / as told to Kaleem Aftab. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2005. - viii, 324 p. : ill. 25 cm.
Includes index.
1. 40 acres and a mule -- 2. The early years -- 3. She's gotta have it -- 4. School daze -- 5. Do the right thing -- 6. Mo' better blues -- 7. Jungle fever -- 8. Malcolm X --9. Crooklyn -- 10. Clockers -- 11. Girl 6 -- 12. Get on the bus and 4 little girls -- 13. He got game -- 14. Summer of Sam -- 15. Original kings of comedy, Bamboozled, A Huey P. Newton story and Jim Brown -- 16. 25th hour -- 17. Sucker free city and She hate me -- Epilogue.
also the inspirational affect Lee has had upon his own and subsequent generations of black film-makers (he gave Halle Berry her first break, and early lead roles to Denzel Washington and Samuel Jackson). Every one of Lee's films has tackled a subject and caused a stir: from female sexuality in She's Gotta Have It to New York race riots in Do the Right Thing and jazz in Mo' Better Blues black poverty and pro-basketball in He Got Game...As such Lee has made himself a spokesman on US race relations, but he is also an entrepreneur and a provocateur. This biography, prepared with Lee's co-operation and with input from his friends, family and collaborators, tells the extraordinary life story of a true American original. www.alibris.com interracial sex in Jungle Fever Louis Farrakhan's 'Million Man March' in Get on the Bus revolutionary pan-Africanism in Malcolm X the 'War on Drugs' in Clockers Kaleem Aftab's authorised biography of Lee chronicles his film work in definitive detail, but also explores the many social issues and controversies that the work has addressed and generated
393061531
African American motion picture producers and directors
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
PN 1998.3.L44 / .Af89 2005
