The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent film She's Gotta Have It. In the few short years following this stellar debut he has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the film industry and in American popular culture. This book reveals Spike Lee as a Hollywood ...
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The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent film She's Gotta Have It. In the few short years following this stellar debut he has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the film industry and in American popular culture. This book reveals Spike Lee as a Hollywood iconoclast and gifted visionary and takes us though the dramatic sequence of events that brought the movie Do The Right Thing to fruition. It is a testimonial to his developing genius, written in the stingingly funny and informed language of Spike Lee.
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New York. 1989. June 1989. Fireside/Simon & Schuster. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0671682652. Followed by the full screenplay and 32 pages of photographs by David Lee. Foreword by Barry Michael Cooper. 297 pages. paperback. Cover art by Art Sims/11: 24 Design and Advertising. keywords: African American Film America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent film She's Gotta Have It. In the few short years following this stellar debut he has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the film industry and in American popular culture. This book reveals Spike Lee as a Hollywood iconoclast and gifted visionary and takes us through the dramatic sequence of events that brought the movie Do The Right Thing to fruition. It is a testimonial to his developing genius, written in the stingingly funny and informed language of Spike Lee. ABOUT UPLIFT THE RACE-‘This is the down and dirty world of filmmaking. '-The Village Voice. ‘A testament to the dogged strength of the human spirit under duress and to a filmmaker who is now a legend in his own time. '-The California Voice. ABOUT SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT-‘[Spike Lee] has the guerrilla filmmaker's most important weapons-an original mind and the unshakable will to be heard. '-John Sayles, author of THINKING IN PICTURES: THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE MATEWAN. ‘A fascinating, hilarious, and uncommonly perceptive journal. '-Danny Peary, author of GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC. inventory #34882.
