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Imprint: BlackAmber
Format: B Format
ISBN: 9781906413842
Price: £ 6.99
Pages: 200 pp
Date: 23rd February 2012
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Spike Lee: The Eternal Maverick
Ray Shell (About this author)
Spike Lee’s first film, which he funded on a credit card, won a slew of
awards and most importantly ushered in the reign of one of the most
significant and influential filmmakers America has ever produced. Lee
is obviously a huge name in the film industry yet after almost 30 years
in the game he is still perceived as a Hollywood outsider, a lone firedup
loose cannon challenging and criticising mainstream depictions of
African-American society; his feuds with fellow directors Quentin
Tarantino and Clint Eastwood are international news.
Lee’s films are like sermons, parables, the real sociological deal in all its dirty-laundry scariness. Along with the usual suspects, whose careers he started (Samuel Jackson, Laurence Fishbourne, Denzel Washington, Halle
Berry, Wesley Snipes) he’s also worked with Michael Jackson, Michael
Jordan and Pavarotti. His vision is honest, unsparing, brave, raw,
painful, joyful, playful, human and universal. He has inspired so many
and The Eternal Maverick will examine the ‘spikes’ that have inspired
Shelton Jackson Lee and fashioned him into the award-winning film
director Spike Lee.
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