Description
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) is one of the most celebrated examples of the 'new black film wave'. In its depiction of the simmering racial tension in a Brooklyn neighbourhood, the movie takes in hip-hop fashions, rap music, police brutality, gentrification, immigration, deindustrialisation and joblessness. In his foreword to this new edition, Ed Guerrero looks back on the movie in the context of Spike Lee's film-making career and contemporary tensions between the police and the African-American community.
About the Author
Ed Guerrero is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, and Africana Studies, at New York University, USA, and author of Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film (1993).
Reviews
This timely and concise exploration of Do the Right Thing is essential for any study of American cinema and its discontents. -- Isaac Julien
This is a rich and energetic exploration of a a Spike Lee 'Classic'. Guerrero is to be congratulated on a triumphant tour of the inner world of Spike Lee's film-making. -- Houston A. Baker, Jr., Distinguished University Professor (English and African American Diaspora Studies), Vanderbilt University, USA
Book Information
ISBN 9781838719883
Author Ed Guerrero
Format Paperback
Page Count 102
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series BFI Film Classics
Weight(grams) 188g
Details
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BFI Film Classics |
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |