The Spike Lee reader
By: edited by Paula J. Massood.
Contributors: Massood, Paula J., 1965-
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781592134847; 9781592134854
Subjects: Lee, Spike -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-263) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [255]-258.
Table of contents: title: We've gotta have it; title: Spike Lee, African American film, and cinema studies / Paula J. Massood; title: "Whose pussy is this" : a feminist comment / Bell Hooks; title: Programming with School daze / Toni Cade Bambara; title: Spike Lee and Black women / Michele Wallace; title: But compared to what? reading realism, representation, and essentialism in School daze, Do the right thing, and the Spike Lee discourse / Wahneema Lubiano; title: The double truth, Ruth : Do the right thing and the culture of ambiguity / James C. McKelly; title: Spike Lee and the fever in the racial jungle / Ed Guerrero; title: "Spike, don't mess Malcolm up" : courting controversy and control in Malcolm X / Anna Everett; title: Through the looking glass and over the rainbow : exploring the fairy tale in Spike Lee's Crooklyn / Mark D. Cunningham; title: Clockers (Spike Lee 1995) : adaptation in black / Keith M. Harris; title: Reel men : Get on the bus and the shifting terrain of Black masulinities / S. Craig Watkins; title: We shall overcome : preserving history and memory in 4 little girls / Christine Acham; title: Spike Lee meets Aaron Copland / Krin Gabbard; title: Race and Black American film noir : Summer of Sam as lynching parable / Dan Flory; title: Racial kitsch and Black performance / Tavia Nyong'o; title: "I be smackin' my hoes" : paradox and authenticity in Bamboozled / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade; title: De profundis : a love letter from the inside man / David A. Gerstner.