TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aftab, Kaleem.
AU  - Lee, Spike.
TI  - Spike Lee: that's my story and I'm sticking to it 
SN  - 393061531
AV  - PN 1998.3.L44 .Af89 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - African American motion picture producers and directors
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors
KW  - United States
N1  - 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
N2  -  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
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