Representing
Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema
Published on 1. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-0-226-87489-0 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-87489-0 (9780226874890)
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Content
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