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Spike Lee by Spike Lee
RRP: £23.50SciFier: £21.79Spike Lee tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director, whose pioneering films-from Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, and Malcolm X to 25th Hour , Bamboozled, and The Inside Man-helped... -
SPIKE by Spike Lee
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £36.99Spike Lee is a world-renowned, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, a cultural icon, and one of the most prominent voices on race and racism for more than three decades. His prolific career has included... -
Spike Lee by Cynthia Fuchs
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £16.35Since his first feature movie, She's Gotta Have It (1986), gave him critical and commercial success, Spike Lee has challenged audiences with one controversial film after another, sparking debates... -
Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader: Foreword by Spike Lee Janice D. Hamlet 9781433102363
RRP: £35.40SciFier: £33.99Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is one of the most culturally influential and provocative film directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together seminal writings - from classic... -
Spike Lee Todd McGowan 9780252079610
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78Since 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... -
Spike Lee Todd McGowan 9780252038143
SciFier: £104.34Since 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... -
Spike Lee by Jason P. Vest
SciFier: £63.49Spike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have... -
The Spike Lee Enigma by Bill Yousman
RRP: £73.70SciFier: £68.49The Spike Lee Enigma is an exploration of ideology and political economy in the films and career of one of America's most controversial filmmakers. Since the 1980s Spike Lee has created numerous... -
Directing Virginia Wright Wexman 9780813564296
SciFier: £31.95When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion's share of the credit. Yet the movie director's job-especially the collaborations and compromises it involves-remains little understood. ... -
Directing Virginia Wright Wexman 9780813564302
SciFier: £134.96When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion's share of the credit. Yet the movie director's job-especially the collaborations and compromises it involves-remains little understood. ... -
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing Mark A. Reid (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, University of Florida) 9780521559546
SciFier: £19.24Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing brings together essays, specially written for this edition, that analyse this controversial film from a variety of methodological perspectives. Among the issues... -
Do the Right Thing by Ed Guerrero (New York University, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.72Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a hot summer in New York City, the... -
The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films With a Foreword by Sir John Akomfrah Ashley Clark 9781529438253
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £23.53The World of Black Film is an entertaining, informed, and thought-provoking survey of important and influential Black films from around the globe, from to the early days of cinema to now. Starting... -
Film Firsts by Ethan Alter
SciFier: £53.49This forward-looking exploration of contemporary American film across the last 40 years identifies and examines the specific movies that changed the film industry and shaped its present and future. ... -
Barbara Kopple: Interviews Gregory Brown 9781496823298
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects... -
Barbara Kopple: Interviews Gregory Brown 9781628462128
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £101.99With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects... -
The Art of Ruth E. Carter by Ruth E. Carter
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.69Ruth E. Carter is a living legend of costume design. For three decades, she has shaped the story of the Black experience on screen - from the eighties streetwear of DO THE RIGHT THING to the royal... -
Black Film/White Money by Jesse Rhines
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £23.99Why are there so few Black filmmakers who control their own work? Why are there scarcely any Black women behind the camera? What happens to Black filmmakers when they move from independent production... -
Psycho-Politics And Cultural Desires by Janet Harbord
SciFier: £37.66A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories and ideas in cultural studies. The book examines the work of Raymond Williams, Lacan... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
SciFier: £44.60This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema S. Craig Watkins 9780226874890
SciFier: £23.22In this text, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the important developments in the recent history of black cinema - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films". The work... -
Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, Revised & Updated Anthony Kaufman 9781628462098
SciFier: £101.99The long and prolific career of Steven Soderbergh (b. 1963) defies easy categorization. From his breakout beginnings in 1989 with sex, lies, and videotape to 2013, when he retired from big-screen... -
Movies as Politics by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.99In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted... -
Facing Blackness by Ashley Clark
RRP: £12.00SciFier: £9.97"In Facing Blackness, Ashley Clark traces the contours of Bamboozled, guiding readers through Lee's intricate representation of race, politics, and popular culture. Clark moves beyond straightforward... -
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th Edition Donald Bogle (Lecturer and Author, USA) 9780826429537
SciFier: £51.48This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the... -
White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media by Emily Ruth Rutter (Ball State University, USA)
SciFier: £40.26This book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of the would-be White ally in contemporary film and television.White Lies and Allies in... -
Tyler Perry: Interviews Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824585
SciFier: £101.99A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a... -
Tyler Perry: Interviews Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824592
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £19.46A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a... -
FilmQuake by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.05Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. FilmQuake introduces 50 movies that... -
Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema S. Craig Watkins 9780226874883
SciFier: £80.13This is an examination of two episodes in the recent history of black film - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "hood" films such as "Boyz N the Hood" and "Menace II Society". This... -
Many Love by Sophie Lucido Johnson
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.79"A fast-paced debut... A candid, modern take on polyamory for fans of memoirs and graphic novels, and anyone interested in stories of dating, love, and romance." -Library JournalAfter trying for... -
Cinema and Landscape by Graeme Harper (Oakland University, USA)
SciFier: £24.59The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet,... -
Reel to Real: Race, class and sex at the movies bell hooks 9780415964807
SciFier: £20.99Movies matter - that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing... -
Guide to American Cinema, 1965-1995 by Daniel Curran
SciFier: £68.49This is a critical collection of key films, directors, and performers in American film, 1965-1995, a period that spans the demise of the studio system to the rise of the independents. The guide... -
Ghetto Klown: A Graphic Novel John Leguizamo 9781419715198
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83The graphic novel adaptation of John Leguizamo's award-winning Broadway play-revised and expanded in paperback, with an all-new introduction by Lin-Manuel Miranda Teaming up with Brooklyn-based... -
Avedon 100 Derek Blasberg 9780847873869
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £58.19Avedon 100 celebrates Richard Avedon's enduring influence on photography and makes clear his profound impression on visual culture worldwide.Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition... -
The South Never Plays Itself by Ben Beard
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £23.54Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South-as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived... -
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir Dan Flory (Montana State University) 9780271033457
SciFier: £44.99In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir... -
Willi Smith by Alexander Cameron Cunningham
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £29.65African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.Before Off-White, before Hood By... -
Stone Island Stone Island 9780847867837
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £43.39A favorite of Spike Lee, Drake, and the British boy band One Direction, the brand has its broadest appeal among the football fans of the English Premier League. Starting in the 1990s, Stone Island...