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050 _aPN 1998.3.L44
_b.Af89 2005
100 _aAftab, Kaleem.
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245 0 _aSpike Lee :
_bthat's my story and I'm sticking to it /
_cas told to Kaleem Aftab.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton,
_cc2005.
300 _aviii, 324 p. :
_bill.
_c25 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _a1. 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.
520 _a 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
520 _a 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
520 _a interracial sex in Jungle Fever
520 _a Louis Farrakhan's 'Million Man March' in Get on the Bus
520 _a revolutionary pan-Africanism in Malcolm X
520 _a the 'War on Drugs' in Clockers
520 _aKaleem 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
650 _aAfrican American motion picture producers and directors
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650 _aMotion picture producers and directors
_zUnited States
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700 _aLee, Spike.
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