最佳Spike Lee播客 (2024)

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27 - Supplement 1: Spike Lee's Musical Conscience 24:10

1+ y ago24:10

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A discussion of the role of music in Spike Lee's cinema, examining the function of music as atmospheric, iconic, and moral conscience. In particular, I am interested in how jazz forms the atmospheric or ambient sound in his work, reminding us of Bleek's drunken defense of jazz as African American affect, tradition, and mood in Mo' Better Blues. As …

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26 - BlacKkKlansman as Retrospective and Militant Memory 30:18

1+ y ago30:18

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A reckoning with Spike Lee's 2018 film BlacKkKlansman as a retrospective on his previous films on race, racism, and U.S. history, as well as his treatment of memory of atrocity as the basis for real militancy. Lee revisits his ontology of antiblack racism, embedding it in political institutions and social-cultural practices, here linking those inst…

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25 - Memory, Rage, and Death in When the Levees Broke 33:14

1+ y ago33:14

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A second reflection piece on Spike Lee's multi-volume documentary When the Levees Broke, focusing on questions of memory, mourning, melancholia, and rage. I'm particularly interested in how death and displacement function in the memory-work of the film, and how Lee's crafting of context to show dead Black bodies on the screen is a story about the e…

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24 - History, Culture, and Antiblackness in When the Levees Broke 30:16

1+ y ago30:16

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An examination of how Spike Lee builds an account of antiblackness into his documentary film When the Levees Broke. In particular, I am interested in how that account attends to the specificity of New Orleans as a Black city, the embeddedness of forms and figures of slavery in antiblack practices, and how Lee draws these out of the experiences and …

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23 - Mourning, Childhood, and the Body in 4 Little Girls 29:12

1+ y ago29:12

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An examination of four key elements in Spike Lee's 1997 documentary 4 Little Girls, focused on the process of mourning, childhood, and Lee's decision to show autopsy photos of the four murdered girls. The closing witness of Chris McNair (inaccurately called "Ron" in the comments, apologies for the misspeak!) reflects the refinement of memory in the…

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22 - Witness and Crafting Knowledge in 4 Little Girls 25:51

1+ y ago25:51

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A series of remarks on method and framing in Spike Lee's 1997 documentary film 4 Little Girls. I am interested in two things that frame the film. First, Lee's deliberate exclusion of narratives of white transformation from the meaning of the death of four girls in the 1963 church bombing, accomplished in large part by his derisive and dismissive tr…

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21 - Mourning and Loss in Chi-Raq 26:28

1+ y ago26:28

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An examination of two critical scenes in Chi-Raq that, for me, tell us what the film is about and what is for Spike Lee the endgame of making cinema about gun violence. The first scene is around the 25:00 mark, where Irene, played by Jennifer Hudson, cleans the blood of her murdered daughter off the sidewalk as Hudson sings "I Run" in the backgroun…

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20 - Mixed-Genre and Cinematic Success in Chi-Raq 29:47

1+ y ago29:47

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Thinking through the problem of mixed-genre in Spike Lee's 2015 film Chi-Raq, how it operates as a fragmented address to gun violence, and how that address clarifies our criteria for a successful cinematic work. In particular, I am interested in how the farcical story of a sex strike, the melodrama elements of storytelling, and quasi-documentary mo…

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19 - Childhood, Melancholy, and Joy in Red Hook Summer 22:40

1+ y ago22:40

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A second reflection on Spike Lee's exploration of abandonment in Red Hook Summer, with particular focus on how the lives of the neighborhood revisit key themes of Black childhood and women's work. Children are more precarious in Red Hook Summer than in other Lee films, and women's work is no longer connected to a domestic sphere apart from the dram…

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18 - Abandonment and Memory in Red Hook Summer 23:27

1+ y ago23:27

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A characterization of Spike Lee's 2012 film Red Hook Summer as a meditation on total abandonment. I am specifically concerned with the abandonment of the neighborhood to environmental racism, social and political violence, and ethnic cleansing. How does Lee document life in a space made precarious by gentrification and other forms of violence? How …

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17 - Masculinity, Slavery, and the Unprecedented in Get On The Bus 24:39

1+ y ago24:39

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Revisiting the theme of masculinity and the interrogative, I here trace the allusions to slavery in Get On The Bus and how it outlines, along with his treatment of Jeremiah (the film's elder), Lee's commitment to cinema as question-asking and the horizon of the unprecedented. Jeremiah's damaged life contains an ethical imperative: center identity o…

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16 - Masculinity and the Interrogative in Get On The Bus 26:01

1+ y ago26:01

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A first comment on Spike Lee's 1996 film Get On The Bus, discussing it as a self-reckoning by Lee concerned with his previous explorations of masculine identity formation. Lee sees the limits and even harm of previous accounts of masculinity, placing the questions he has for himself, but also Black men more broadly, inside the spatially constrained…

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15 - Childhood, Portraiture, and Possibility in Crooklyn 25:14

1+ y ago25:14

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A further exploration of the meaning of childhood in Spike Lee's Crooklyn, with particular attention to how childhood and adulthood sit in an ambiguous relation and produce both constriction and possibility. I'm interested in how the song "Ooh Child" by Five Stairsteps expresses the moral and ethical message of the film, namely, that whatever the a…

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14 - Black Girlhood and Women's Work in Crooklyn 29:21

1+ y ago29:21

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A discussion of the relationship between girlhood, childhood, Black life, and women's work in Spike Lee's 1994 film Crooklyn. In this reflection, I read Lee's film - a collaboration with his siblings, especially his sister Joie Lee - as an exercise in portraiture. That is, Lee is not prescribing how Black girls should live, how life should unfold f…

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13 - The Existential Politics of Malcolm X 22:41

1+ y ago22:41

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A sketch of the politics of the film, as well as the life of the person, Malcolm X - and, by extension, the politics of Spike Lee's early cinema. In particular, I am concerned with how Lee continues his reflections on the meaning and possibilities for Black life outside the white gaze, formed between Black people and guided by the open horizon(s) o…

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12 - Masculinity and Self-Invention in Malcolm X 31:53

1+ y ago31:53

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An exploration of themes of masculinity in Malcolm X, linking Lee's 1992 film to his previous reflections of masculinity and masculine identity formation. I am particularly interested in how the film tracks self-invention across Malcolm X's life, and how the concluding sequence of declarations "I am Malcolm X" suggests a broader horizon for Black i…

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11 - Childhood, Women's Work, and the Phallus in Mo' Better Blues 27:00

1+ y ago27:00

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Discussion of Mo' Better Blues, with emphasis on the place of children, childhood, motherhood, and women's work in the formation of masculine identity. In particular, I'm interested in how pleasure and play open up new horizons not just for masculine identity formation, but for the relationships between men and for relationships between men and wom…

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10 - Masculinity and the Phallus in Mo' Better Blues 26:14

1+ y ago26:14

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A discussion of the theme of masculinity and the phallus in Spike Lee's 1990 film Mo' Better Blues, with particular emphasis on the psychic and material dimensions of phallic struggle between Bleek and Shadow. I am interested in how the psychic life of the stage is deployed in the struggle between Bleek and Shadow offstage to possess, in whatever r…

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9 - Women, Children, and the Police in Do the Right Thing 25:22

1+ y ago25:22

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A discussion of three under theorized themes in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, but which get further treatment across his cinema: women's work, the role of children and childhood on the screen, and the presence of the police in an antiblack world.由John E. Drabinski

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8 - The Right Thing in Do the Right Thing 29:38

1+ y ago29:38

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Discussion of the theme of "right" in Do the Right Thing, with particular focus on the neighborhood complexities of race, color, nation, and age. Beginning with a brief bit about the aesthetic innovations of the film - putting Black bodies on the screen - in relation to School Daze and She's Gotta Have It, I spend most of the piece exploring the re…

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7 - Masculinity and Misogyny in School Daze 27:29

1+ y ago27:29

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In this piece, I explore the relationship between masculinity and misogyny in School Daze, arguing that Lee links the two and sees the formation of masculine identity as inseparable from the subjugation of women. What is the path out? This is not resolved in the film, but the stakes could not be higher: Lee links the question to slavery and emancip…

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6 - Memory and the Moral Horizon of School Daze 24:56

1+ y ago24:56

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A reflection on the opening credits to School Daze, and the sound and image that makes it work as the moral horizon of the film. In setting a series of images in relation to a Spiritual, Lee stages the stakes of the body of the film - what it means to live, act, and inhabit the horizon of Black righteousness with moral and political responsibility.…

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5 - Bamboozled, Nihilism, and the Problem of Exit 24:56

1+ y ago24:56

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In a second discussion of Bamboozled, I continue a discussion of the film's pessimism and elements, small and suggestive only, that direct us towards paths of exit. I focus in particular on how minstrelsy haunts the film, our culture, and the possibilities of expressive life in an antiblack world - with specific reference to the scene in which the …

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4 - The Afropessimism of Bamboozled 22:51

1+ y ago22:51

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In this discussion, I explore the pessimism of Spike Lee's Bamboozled, a 2000 film that offers a thought experiment: what would happen if television broadcast a minstrel series? What are the theoretical foundations of the claims coming out of this experiment? Lee, I claim, is drawing on the key insights of afropessimism, in particular the claim tha…

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3 - Hollywood Shuffle and the Question of Crisis 24:56

1+ y ago24:56

24:56

A discussion of Robert Townsend's 1987 film Hollywood Shuffle and how it both articulates and addresses a sense of crisis in making films with and about Black people. I am particularly concerned with how Townsend engages two senses of crisis. One, registering a sense of enduring violence against Black bodies, people, and life in the history of Amer…

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2 - Hollywood Shuffle and Representation 20:47

1+ y ago20:47

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As a way of preparing for analysis of Spike Lee's cinema, I reflect here on how Robert Townsend's 1987 film Hollywood Shuffle poses a series of challenges to filmmaking and the representation of Black people and Black life on the screen. In particular, I am interested in his critique of Hollywood's racial history - a critique made by plain reportag…

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1 - Preliminary Notes for Reading Spike Lee; or A Black Studies Hermeneutic 23:59

1+ y ago23:59

23:59

In this opening episode, I describe my interpretative frame for Spike Lee's cinema, focusing on the terms and imperatives Lee brings to cinematic practice - the burden and beauty of representing Black bodies, Black people, and Black life - and how that forms what I call a Black Studies approach to film. My interpretative frame, then, follows Lee's …

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Spike Lee: Meet the Filmmaker 23:14

11+ y ago23:14

23:14

Join legendary filmmaker Spike Lee as he discusses the latest film, “Red Hook Summer.”

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Spike Lee: Meet the Filmmaker

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Spike Lee's Joints

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27 - Supplement 1: Spike Lee's Musical Conscience 24:10

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26 - BlacKkKlansman as Retrospective and Militant Memory 30:18

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25 - Memory, Rage, and Death in When the Levees Broke 33:14

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24 - History, Culture, and Antiblackness in When the Levees Broke 30:16

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23 - Mourning, Childhood, and the Body in 4 Little Girls 29:12

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22 - Witness and Crafting Knowledge in 4 Little Girls 25:51

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21 - Mourning and Loss in Chi-Raq 26:28

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20 - Mixed-Genre and Cinematic Success in Chi-Raq 29:47

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19 - Childhood, Melancholy, and Joy in Red Hook Summer 22:40

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18 - Abandonment and Memory in Red Hook Summer 23:27

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17 - Masculinity, Slavery, and the Unprecedented in Get On The Bus 24:39

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16 - Masculinity and the Interrogative in Get On The Bus 26:01

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15 - Childhood, Portraiture, and Possibility in Crooklyn 25:14

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14 - Black Girlhood and Women's Work in Crooklyn 29:21

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13 - The Existential Politics of Malcolm X 22:41

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12 - Masculinity and Self-Invention in Malcolm X 31:53

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11 - Childhood, Women's Work, and the Phallus in Mo' Better Blues 27:00

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10 - Masculinity and the Phallus in Mo' Better Blues 26:14

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9 - Women, Children, and the Police in Do the Right Thing 25:22

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8 - The Right Thing in Do the Right Thing 29:38

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7 - Masculinity and Misogyny in School Daze 27:29

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6 - Memory and the Moral Horizon of School Daze 24:56

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5 - Bamboozled, Nihilism, and the Problem of Exit 24:56

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4 - The Afropessimism of Bamboozled 22:51

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3 - Hollywood Shuffle and the Question of Crisis 24:56

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2 - Hollywood Shuffle and Representation 20:47

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1 - Preliminary Notes for Reading Spike Lee; or A Black Studies Hermeneutic 23:59

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Spike Lee: Meet the Filmmaker 23:14

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