"No Brothers on the Wall": Black Male Icons in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

abstract: Hollywood's portrayal of African American men was replete with negative stereotypes before Shelton Jackson Lee, commonly known as Spike Lee, emerged as one of the most creative and provocative filmmakers of our time. Lee has used his films to perform a corrective history of images of...

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Other Authors: Hotep, Lasana Omar (Author)
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14874