Spike Lee: Blackness has Many Meanings

Title: Spike Lee: Blackness has Many Meanings
Category: Entertainment / Movies & Film
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Spike Lee: Blackness has Many Meanings

Spike Lee: Blackness has Many Meanings Presently in America a war is being fought. Forget about guns, planes, and bombs, the weapons from now on will be the newspapers, magazines, TV shows, radio, and FILM. The right has gotten BOLD, bolstered by their squashing of Ice-T’s COP KILLER, any piece of art that doesn’t hold the party line is subject to attack. It’s war on the battle grounds of culture. -Spike Lee (…showed first 75 words of 3343 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3343 total…most important aspects of Lee’s success is his attempt to reclaim the symbolic territory of popular film as a prologue to engaging dominant discourses about the broad range of social experiences that characterize the lives of African Americans.”(Watkins, 139) By presenting African American culture and history on film, in complex, creative, and non-stereotypical way, Spike Lee’s films provide a useful and entertaining venue for communication about race and economic relations in America today.

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