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
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
Final, Part II: Remix the Syllabus
– Do the Right Thing (1989)- Clockers (1995) – Summer of Sam (1999) – Red Hook Summer (2012) Themes: Private/Public space, ownership, neighborhoods/geographic politics, insiderism/outsiderism, violence, community, nostalgia, affiliation/filiation – … Continue reading
My thoughts on “When the Levees Broke”
4 hours is a LONG time to spend watching a film (or in this case, a miniseries), let alone a documentary. I walked out of this feeling overly tired and … Continue reading
Framing at the end of When the Levees Broke
At the end of ‘When the Levees Broke,’ there is a montage of every person Lee interviewed, all of them holding a frame. This says nothing in and of itself. … Continue reading
When the Levees Broke – An Unfinished Funeral for New Orleans
So today in class, towards the very end we began discussing the significance of the New Orleans funeral held for Katrina at the end. We didn’t have a lot of … Continue reading
Emotions and Motivations in Spike Lee’s Documentaries
Last week I wrote about the implications of producing a documentary rather than a historical fiction film after watching “4 Little Girls” and I argued that the real difference between … Continue reading
The Perfect Storm: An Exploration of Intersectionality
Since last night I literally haven’t been able to stop thinking about “When the Levees Broke” and the surrounding political debates and so I figured I might as well get … Continue reading
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