Representing : hip hop culture and the production of Black cinema / S. Craig Watkins.
Representing : hip hop culture and the production of Black cinema / S. Craig Watkins.
Representing : hip hop culture and the production of Black cinema / S. Craig Watkins.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N791.43652/9
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English
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xiv, 314 p. ; 23 p.
Contents
Introduction: Black Youth at Century's End -- 1. Social Conservatism and the Culture Wars -- 2. Black Youth and the Ironies of Capitalism -- 3. Black Cinema and the Changing Landscape of Industrial Image Making -- 4. Producing the Spike Lee Joint -- 5. Spike's Joint -- 6. Producing Ghetto Pictures -...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
1998.
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In this book, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the most important developments in the recent history of black cinemathe ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films" like Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society. Representing explores a distinct contradiction in American society: at the same time that black youth have become t...
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Representing : hip hop culture and the production of Black cinema / S. Craig Watkins.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N791.43652/9
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74Vvg8KLyGyl
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0226874885 (cloth :alk. paper)
9780226874883 (cloth :alk. paper)
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791.43652396073
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991012374679702626
