By Delphine Letort,Mark A. Reid
ISBN-10: 1438457626
ISBN-13: 9781438457628
ISBN-10: 1438457634
ISBN-13: 9781438457635
In this groundbreaking booklet, Delphine Letort sheds gentle on a missed a part of Spike Lee’s filmmaking by way of delivering an extraordinary examine his inventive engagement with the style of documentary filmmaking. starting from background to activities and tune, Lee has tackled a range of themes in such nonfiction movies as 4 Little Girls, A Huey P. Newton Story, Jim Brown: All-American, and When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in 4 Acts. Letort analyzes the narrative and aesthetic discourses that constitution those movies and calls recognition to Lee’s technical abilities and narrative-framing units. Drawing on movie and media reviews, African American reports, and cultural theories, she examines the sociological worth of Lee’s investigations into modern tradition and likewise explores the ethics of his dedication to a style characterised through its declare to truth.
Delphine Letort is affiliate Professor of English on the Université du Maine in Le Mans, France.
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