The philosophy of Spike Lee [electronic resource] / edited by Mark T. Conard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Justice, value, and the nature of evil. The symbolism of blood in Clockers / Douglas McFarland -- The prostitution trap of elite sport in He got game / Jason Holt and Robert Pitter -- Aristotle and MacIntyre on Justice in 25th Hour / Mark T. Conard -- We can't get off the bus: a commentary on Spike Lee and moral motivation / Gabriella Beckles-Raymond -- Monsters and moralism in Summer of Sam / R. Barton Palmer -- Race, sexuality, and community. (Still) fighting the power: public space and the unspeakable privacy of the other in Do the right thing / Elizabeth Hope Finnegan -- Coworking in the kingdom of culture: identity and community in the films of Spike Lee / Charles F. Peterson -- Feminists and "freaks": She's gotta have it and Girl / Karen D. Hoffman -- The dialectic of King and X in Do the right thing / Michael Silberstein -- Fevered desires and interracial intimacies in Jungle fever / Ronald R. Sundstrom -- Bamboozled: philosophy through blackface / -- Dan Flory -- Time, the subject, and transcendence. Transcendence and sublimity in Spike Lee's signature shot / Jerold J. Abrams -- Economies of time in Clockers / Richard Gilmore -- Rethinking the first person: autobiography, authorship, and the contested self in Malcolm X / David LaRocca.

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