Actor/director/producer Spike Lee and his wife Tonya Lewis Lee delve into their personal experiences to present this look at life with a very active and playful toddler. Illustrated with acrylic paintings.
The winning team of director Spike Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee, has created an adorable, wry picture book featuring the hilarious antics of a pair of African American toddlers and their infectiously energetic, adventurous little puppy. Intent on some freedom, the puppy explodes out the yard and heads straight for a mud puddle, much ...
This new biography tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director whose pioneering films---from "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" to "Malcolm X"--helped transform the face of late 20th-century America.
A New Orleans Hurricane Katrina survivor writes an astounding and poignant account of how she and her husband lived through one of the US's worst disasters, and continue to put their lives back together again. Includes a foreword by Spike Lee.
Spike Lee rises again. This time, he and Lisa Jones document his transition from struggling independent to mainstream filmmaker with the making of the Columbia Pictures film, School Daze. No longer working with a small cast and a painfully tight budget, Spike Lee and his crew find themselves working in a swirl of university politics, a cast of ...
Including Spike Lee's advice on independent filmmaking, excerpts from the production journal Lee kept throughout the making of She's Gotta Have It, and much more, Spike Lee's Gotta Have It is a unique document in film literature. 30 black-and-white photographs.
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 ...
The co-founder and leader of the pioneering rap group Public Enemy, Chuck D has built a career on his reputation as a revolutionary thinker and political proselytizer against black apathy and white stereotyping of African Americans. Here he brings his considerable intellectual energy to bear on subjects as diverse as the co-opting of black culture ...
This collection of conversations with Spike Lee by various print and television journalists, including Charlie Rose, Elvis Mitchell, Michael Sragow, and Chris Nashawaty, captures the preeminent black filmmaker at various stages of his career, from the confident new kid on the block discussing his breakout movie SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT in 1986, to the ...
Spike Lee shares his favorite memories from his three decades as a Knicks fan, capturing moments of both heroism (Willis Reed's rousing, pain-plagued performance in the Knicks' improbable 1970 championship) and infamy (the notorious Reggie Miller incident in the 1995 playoff series).
Spike Lee's film, Malcolm X created a tidal wave of controvery and fascination with its subject. Here is Spike Lee's own account of his exploration into the life and death of Malcolm X, and his long struggle to get the film made. It is a riveting book by one of the most talented and outspoken filmmakers in America today. 16 pages of photos. ...
Millions have seen Spike Lee's films - She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, and the most provocative film of 1989, Do the Right Thing - and read the companion books - Spike Lee's Gotta Have It, Uplift the Race, and Do the Right Thing. Spike launched his career with a romantic comedy, and now returns to romance, set against the backdrop of the music ...
"John Starks: My Life" chronicles John Starks's miraculous ascension from going undrafted after one just one season at Oklahoma State to his stellar career with the New York Knicks.
Based on the best-selling novel and with screenplay by James McBride, Miracle at St. Anna is a visually monumental film about a group of Buffalo soldiers who find themselves behind enemy lines in Italy during World War II. Filmed mostly in lush Tuscan countryside, with cinematography by Matthew Libatique (Requiem for a Dream) and still photography ...
A critical and interpretive tribute to the work of film maker Spike Lee. Essays by African-American writers - Terry McMillan, Toni Cade Bambara, Nelson George, Charles Johnson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr and Melvin Van Peebles - accompany production stills taken by David Lee.
Shelton Jackson «Spike Lee is one of the most culturally influential and provocative film directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together seminal writings -- from classic scholarship to new research -- this book focuses on this revolutionary film auteur and cultural provocateur to explore contemporary questions ...
A basketball memoir that travels through the history of basketball in the US as it progressed from a fringe sport with a graveyard television slot to its present big-money spectacular, filled with inflated salaries and egos to match.
This book features the poster art of the Obama '08 electoral campaign. The graphic innovation that helped make history. Hundreds of pro-Obama posters appeared on designforobama.org, a website for artists and designers wanting to support his candidacy. This selection of the very best, by renowned artists and up-and-comers, is an important social ...
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