Spike Lee: Directors Inspiration
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Spike Lee: Directors Inspiration by Spike Lee
An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collection of Spike Lee Published with Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. For nearly four decades, Spike Lee has made movies that demand our attention. His extensive filmography reflects an unflinching critique of race relations in the United States, from the Student Academy Award®–winning short Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads and the ever-relevant Do the Right Thing to the more recent Oscar®-winning BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods. A lifelong cinephile and film scholar, Lee draws inspiration from other artists working across a range of eras, genres and global cinemas. He has also devoted much of his career to teaching the next generation of filmmakers. Spike Lee: Director’s Inspiration presents Lee’s personal collection of original film posters and objects, photographs, artworks and more—many of these inscribed to Lee personally by filmmakers, stars, athletes, activists, musicians and others who have inspired his work in specific ways. Straight from the walls of Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule production studio in Brooklyn, his faculty office at NYU and his Martha’s Vineyard home, these objects offer a glimpse into what shapes Lee’s signature filmmaking approach. Spike Lee: Director’s Inspiration also includes a conversation between Lee and Shaka King (Judas and the Black Messiah) and brief texts by some of the many artists Lee himself has inspired. Spike Lee (born 1957) is a director, writer, actor, producer, author and artistic director of the graduate film program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he has taught since 1993.About the editor and authors:
Spike Lee is a writer-director, actor, and producer whose groundbreaking movies include She's Gotta Have It (1986), and the Oscar-nominated Do the Right Thing (1989) and Malcolm X (1992). The producer and director of numerous documentaries, music videos and commercials, he heads the advertising agency Spike/DDB and is the author of several books. He is a professor at NYU's Graduate Film program, and its artistic director.
Aaron Perry-Zucker graduated from RISD and co-founded a design studio and consultancy, Big New Ideas, specializing in big, new ideas across all design disciplines. He is currently writing a reality TV show, designing a new collective poster project, and living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
About the author:
Steven Heller, co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer as Author Program, writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review, and is the author of 120 books on design, illustration, and satiric art.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781636810133 |
| ISBN 10 | 1636810136 |
| Title | Spike Lee: Directors Inspiration |
| Author | Spike Lee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Distributed Art Publishers |
| Year published | 2022-10-27 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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