The philosophy of Spike Lee
By: edited by Mark T. Conard
Series: The philosophy of popular culture
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780813133805; 9780813133812
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Justice, value, and the nature of evil. The symbolism of blood in Clockers / Douglas McFarland; title: The prostitution trap of elite sport in He got game / Jason Holt and Robert Pitter; title: Aristotle and MacIntyre on Justice in 25th Hour / Mark T. Conard; title: We can't get off the bus: a commentary on Spike Lee and moral motivation / Gabriella Beckles-Raymond; title: Monsters and moralism in Summer of Sam / R. Barton Palmer; title: Race, sexuality, and community. (Still) fighting the power: public space and the unspeakable privacy of the other in Do the right thing / Elizabeth Hope Finnegan; title: Coworking in the kingdom of culture: identity and community in the films of Spike Lee / Charles F. Peterson; title: Feminists and "freaks": She's gotta have it and Girl / Karen D. Hoffman; title: The dialectic of King and X in Do the right thing / Michael Silberstein; title: Fevered desires and interracial intimacies in Jungle fever / Ronald R. Sundstrom; title: Bamboozled: philosophy through blackface /; title: Dan Flory; title: Time, the subject, and transcendence. Transcendence and sublimity in Spike Lee's signature shot / Jerold J. Abrams; title: Economies of time in Clockers / Richard Gilmore; title: Rethinking the first person: autobiography, authorship, and the contested self in Malcolm X / David LaRocca.