Foucault’s Heterotopias
reproduced from http://www.uni-weimar.de/projekte/isp-gjk/index.php?id=80 . Michel Foucault. Of other spaces (1967), Heterotopias The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. We are in the epoch of simultaneity: … Continue reading
Remixing Spike Lee’s Joints
Week 1: Inside Man – The Introduction Week 2: She’s Gotta Have It & Jungle Fever – Narrative Week 3: Do the Right Thing & Clockers – Character Week 4: Crooklyn & Get … Continue reading
The Remix
An intensive examination of the works of Spike Lee that seeks to understand the filmmaker by attempting to understand shared themes in his work, with each one building off of … Continue reading
Female Crackheads: Montage and Femininity in Clockers
There are two main modes through which Spike Lee depicts femininity in his 1995 urban drama Clockers. Most of the women in the film are mothers, and spend their time either … Continue reading
Lee’s geometrics
That’s one fancy, intriguing, vaguely theoretical title down… Every time I watch Do the Right Thing I’m reminded again of what an eye Spike lee has for geometry and the good … Continue reading
Arthur Jafa, Treatment, and the Alien Familiar
I recently came across an essay written by Arthur Jafa, the cinematographer on Crooklyn, and the director of photography on Malcolm X. The essay, titled “The Notion of Treatment: Black Aesthetics and … Continue reading
Drugs in America
While Spike Lee has slightly looked at drug use in his films, he’s never fully engaged the topic. It would be interesting to see how Spike would engage the notion … Continue reading
Levees Broke and Da Creek Don’t Rise: Raw Power
It might be me or the mere content of the subject, but When the Levees Broke and God Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise are extremely powerful in their raw-ness. … Continue reading
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