Film Studies 8-3 Spike Lee by Mike Conrad

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Film Studies 8-3 Spike Lee

Published on Dec 01, 2015

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The director

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Spike Lee

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born Shelton Jackson Lee
on March 20, 1957,
in Atlanta, Georgia

Growing up in a relatively well-off African-American family, Lee was making amateur films by age 20

His first student film,
Last Hustle in Brooklyn,
was completed when he was an undergraduate at Morehouse College

Graduated from the New York University
Film School in 1982.
His thesis film,
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads,
won a Student Academy Award

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In 1865, General Sherman issued "Special Field Order 15", which ordered the distribution of lots of 40 acres to some freed black families on the Georgia coast, and also distributed some mules

After President Lincoln was assassinated, President Andrew Johnson revoked the order, took the land away from the freed slaves, and returned it to the previous owners

SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT

1986

She's Gotta Have It was shot in two weeks and cost $175,000 to make

She's Gotta Have It grossed more than
$7 million at the box office, making it one of the most profitable films of 1986

In his films, Lee often takes a critical look at race relations, political issues and urban crime and violence

1989's Do The Right Thing, examined all of these and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Subsequent films, including Malcolm X, Mo' Better Blues, Summer of Sam and She Hate Me, continued to explore social and political issues

During this time, in 1991,
Lee taught a course at Harvard about filmmaking

In 1993, he began to teach at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Graduate Film Program. There he was appointed Artistic Director in 2002

4 Little Girls, a documentary about the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1997

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A huge New York Knicks fan, Lee is the director, writer, and producer of the MyCareer story mode in the video game NBA 2K16.

Mike Conrad

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