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Spike Lee (Contemporary Film Directors), McGowan, Todd, GOOD
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780252079610
- Publication Name
- Spike Lee
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Series
- Contemporary Film Directors Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252079612
ISBN-13
9780252079610
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167905088
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Spike Lee
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Series
Contemporary Film Directors Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1998.3.L44m35 2014
Reviews
"McGowan's decision to ignore the specificity of Lee's life and engage a rather theoretical, straightforwardly auteurist reading of Lee's oeuvre yields specific, fascinating readings of individual films."-- Slant Magazine " Spike Lee is an enlightening take on the numerous ways excess plays a significant role in the films of Spike Lee and serves as an alternative look into a complex filmmaker."-- Film Matters, "This collection brings valuable attention to the largely overlooked experiences of Asian Americans in the southern US. . . . An important contribution to Asian American studies. Essential."-- Choice , "McGowan's decision to ignore the specificity of Lee's life and engage a rather theoretical, straightforwardly auteurist reading of Lee's oeuvre yields specific, fascinating readings of individual films."-- Slant Magazine, "This collection brings valuable attention to the largely overlooked experiences of Asian Americans in the southern US. . . . An important contribution to Asian American studies. Essential."-- Choice "Several of the films produced by 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks and directed by the prominent director Spike Lee are intricately analysed by Todd McGowan with poise, eloquence, and succinctness ending in a brilliant diegesis. From the start the author formulates for the reader the profound value the concept excess holds in crucially interpreting Spike Lee as not only an iconic political filmmaker but an artist committed to using excess as a unique peculiarity throughout his film repertoire."-- Ethnic and Racial Studies , " Spike Lee is an enlightening take on the numerous ways excess plays a significant role in the films of Spike Lee and serves as an alternative look into a complex filmmaker."-- Film Matters, "Several of the films produced by 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks and directed by the prominent director Spike Lee are intricately analysed by Todd McGowan with poise, eloquence, and succinctness ending in a brilliant diegesis. From the start the author formulates for the reader the profound value the concept excess holds in crucially interpreting Spike Lee as not only an iconic political filmmaker but an artist committed to using excess as a unique peculiarity throughout his film repertoire."-- Ethnic and Racial Studies, "This collection brings valuable attention to the largely overlooked experiences of Asian Americans in the southern US. . . . An important contribution to Asian American studies. Essential."-- Choice, ''In this invaluable study, Todd McGowan describes Spike Lee as a political theorist whose films always go 'too far.' In this way Lee vividly illustrates how we are defined as human subjects by what 'exceeds' us: the disturbing and often unconscious passions that break out in sexuality, violence, and the racism we disclaim. According to McGowan, far from considering this excess of being from a moralistic perspective, Lee uses each of his films to explore both its deadly consequences and its ambiguous role in driving the passions bound up in thought, emotion, and behavior. This book brings the kind of philosophical focus to Lee's work that has long been needed, without sacrificing close attention to the aesthetic elements and historical contexts of the films.''--Susan White, Associate Professor of Film and Literature, University of Arizona, "A solid look at director Spike Lee's often controversial and always to-the-point films. . . . A well-thought-out assessment."-- Library Journal, "In this invaluable study, Todd McGowan describes Spike Lee as a political theorist whose films always go 'too far.' In this way Lee vividly illustrates how we are defined as human subjects by what 'exceeds' us: the disturbing and often unconscious passions that break out in sexuality, violence, and the racism we disclaim. According to McGowan, far from considering this excess of being from a moralistic perspective, Lee uses each of his films to explore both its deadly consequences and its ambiguous role in driving the passions bound up in thought, emotion, and behavior. This book brings the kind of philosophical focus to Lee's work that has long been needed, without sacrificing close attention to the aesthetic elements and historical contexts of the films." --Susan White, Associate Professor of Film and Literature, University of Arizona, "In this invaluable study, Todd McGowan describes Spike Lee as a political theorist whose films always go 'too far.' In this way Lee vividly illustrates how we are defined as human subjects by what 'exceeds' us: the disturbing and often unconscious passions that break out in sexuality, violence, and the racism we disclaim. According to McGowan, far from considering this excess of being from a moralistic perspective, Lee uses each of his films to explore both its deadly consequences and its ambiguous role in driving the passions bound up in thought, emotion, and behavior. This book brings the kind of philosophical focus to Lee's work that has long been needed, without sacrificing close attention to the aesthetic elements and historical contexts of the films." --Susan White, Associate Professor of Film and Literature, University of Arizona
Copyright Date
2014
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / Direction & Production, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2013-023553
Dewey Decimal
791.4302/33092
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
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