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April 13, 2006
Spike Lee materials
Look for these materials on or by Spike Lee at your library:
25th hour [videorecording]
Summary: Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
Location: Undergraduate Media Browsing
Call Number: VIDREC 791.436556 T918
4 little girls[videorecording]
Summary: The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists were soon jailed, but it was the participation of the children that advanced the momentum of the Birmingham movement. They marched alongside the adults and were taken to jail with them as well. On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in the 16th St. Baptist Church. The bodies of four girls were found under the debris. Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley died because of the color of their skin.
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: VIDREC 791.456355 F825
Afrocentricity [videorecording]
Summary: A complation of seven short films, in-depth interviews and commentary by emerging African American film directors. "Meet here the next generation ... unadulterated by the Hollywood filmmaking process. "
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: DVD 791.433 Af85
Best seat in the house : a basketball memoir
Location: Main Stacks
Call Number: 796.3230973 L515B
By any means necessary : the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X--
Notes: Includes Malcolm X screenplay by James Baldwin, Arnold Perl and Spike Lee, based on the Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley.
Location: Undergraduate; Main Stacks; History, Philosophy & Newspaper
Call Number: 791.4372 M292L1993
Clockers [videorecording]
Summary: Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is murdered, it is Victor who confesses. Detective Rocco Kleine won't buy Victor's confession, and begins to attempt to break down the stories of both brothers in order to save Victor.
Location: Undergraduate Media Browsing
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 C620u
Crooklyn [videorecording]
Summary: Director Spike Lee fashions a bold, flavorful picture of family life in a crowded but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood nicknamed "Crooklyn" by the Carmichaels, who experience one very special summer in their hometown under difficult but often wonderful circumstances.
Location: Undergraduate Media Browsing
Call Number: DVD 791.43655 C882u
Do the right thing : a Spike Lee joint
Location: Main Stacks (three copies)
Call Number: 791.4372 D651l
Do the right thing [videorecording]
Summary: This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: LASERDISC 791.4372 D649V
Five for five : the films of Spike Lee
Contents: Right on, as in right on time / Melvin Van Peebles -- Preface / David Lee -- Five for five / Spike Lee -- She's gotta have it : thoughts on She's gotta have it / Terry McMillan -- School daze : programming with School daze / Toni Cade Bambara -- Do the right thing : Do the right thing : film and fury / Nelson George -- Mo' better blues : one meaning of Mo' better blues / Charles Johnson -- Jungle fever : guess who's not coming to dinner? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Location: Undergraduate; Main Stacks; Africana/Afro-Americana Reference [non-circulating]
Call Number: Q. 791.43750973 L515F
Get on the bus [videorecording]
Summary: Follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. They board the bus as strangers but emerge three days and thousands of miles later as brothers.
Location: Undergraduate Media Browsing; Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 G335co
Girl 6 [videorecording]
Summary: When an attractive, talented actress discovers that the only job she can get is working as a fantasy telephone operator, she decides to make the most of it.
Location: Undergrad Media Center [non-circulating]
Call Number: LASERDISC 791.4317 G443
<em>He got game [videorecording]
Summary: With promises of a reduced sentence, a man is granted temporary release from state prison in order to persuade the nation's top college basketball recruit, his estranged son, to play ball for the Governor's alma mater. But just as the son faces intense pressures and irresistible temptations contemplating his big decision, the father is also forced to consider not only what's best for himself but what's best for his son.
Location: Undergraduate Media Browsing
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 H34t
Joe's Bed-Stuy barbersho : we cut heads [videorecording]
Summary: A tale of murder, suspense, and the dream of making the big hit is set against the graffiti-covered concrete of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's inner city.
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: VIDREC 791.4372 J591f
Jungle fever [videorecording]
Summary: A black architect begins an affair with his working class Italian secretary. Their relationship causes them to be scrutinized by their friends, cast out from their families and shunned by their neighbors.
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: DVD 791.43653 J958
Malcolm X [videorecording]
Summary: The life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Location: Undergraduate Media Browsing; Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 M291wa 2005
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: VIDREC 791.4372 M2921w
Mo' better blues
Location: Main Stacks
Call Number: 791.4372 M712L
Mo' better blues [videorecording]
Summary: Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and chilhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Location: Undergraduate Media Browsing; Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: DVD 791.43653 M71
The original kings of comedy [videorecording]
Note: Documentary capturing four stand-up comics live and uncensored. Includes backstage footage and interviews.
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: DVD 792.7028092 Or4
Please, baby, please
Summary: A toddler's antics keep his mother busy as she tries to feed him, watch him on the playground, give him a bath, and put him to bed.
Location: Education S Collection; Center for Childrens Books [non-circulating]
Call Number: SE. L515p
Please, puppy, please
Summary: Two toddlers have fun with their puppy.
Location: Center for Childrens Books [non-circulating]
Call Number: SE. L515p
School daze [videorecording]
Summary: A music-filled, off-beat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life.
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: VIDREC 791.4372 SCH65
She's gotta have it [videorecording
Summary: Nola Darling attempts to sort out the three steady men in her life.
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: VIDREC 791.4372 SH59P
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: LASERDISC 791.4372 SH59V
Spike Lee : interviews
Location: Undergraduate; English
Call Number: 791.430233 L515s
Spike Lee : that's my story and I'm sticking to it / as told to Kaleem Aftab
Location: Undergraduate; English
Call Number: 791.430233092 L515l
Spike Lee's gotta have it : inside guerilla filmmaking
Location: English; Main Stacks
Call Number: 791.4372 G713L
Summer of Sam >[videorecording]
Summary: In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate into dread.
Location: Undergraduate Media Closed Stacks
Call Number: DVD 791.43653 Su67
Uplift the race : the construction of School daze
Location: Main Stacks; Africana/Afro-Americana Reference [non-circulating]
Call Number: 791.4372 SCH65L
Posted by undergrad at April 13, 2006 7:13 PM
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