Description
In the most incisive analysis yet of Lee's film, Ed Guerrero explores its nuanced blend of art, politics and commercial instinct
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) is one of the most celebrated examples of the ‘new black film wave’. In its depiction of the simmering racial tension in a Brooklyn neighbourhood, the movie takes in hip-hop fashions, rap music, police brutality, gentrification, immigration, deindustrialisation and joblessness. I
n his foreword to this new edition, Ed Guerrero looks back on the movie in the context of Spike Lee's filmmaking career and contemporary tensions between the police and the African-American community.
Product details
| SKU | 9781838719883 |
| Alphabetical Title | Do the Right Thing: BFI Film Classics |
| BFICID | 150339532 |
| Brand / Publisher | Bloomsbury / BFI |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Original Publication Date | 28/05/2020 |
| Size | No size |
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