基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1998. Watkins examines the two most important moments in the recent history of black film-the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "hood films" like Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society.
Full Description
In this text, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the important developments in the recent history of black cinema - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films". The work explores a distinct contradiction in American society - at the same time that black youth have become the targets of a fierce racial backlash, their popular expressive cultures have become highly visible and commercially viable.
Contents
Introduction - black youth at century's end; social conservatism and the culture wars; black youth and the ironies of capitalism; black cinema and the changing landscape of industrial image making; producing the Spike Lee joint; Spike's joint; producing ghetto pictures; the ghettocentric imagination; epilogue - the culture industry and the hip hop generation
