How does Spike Lees "Jungle Fever" adress stereotyping. Discuss with reference to the history of black cinema.
Date Submitted: 11/03/2004 22:40:16
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 4 pages (1130 words)
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 4 pages (1130 words)
"Jungle Fever"
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After some breakthrough hits at the Box Office, with She´s Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing and Mo´Better Blues, a young black filmmaker made a name for himself. Spike Lee. Mainly because he was an African American director who dared to speak up for his culture, but also found a way to suit the taste of the public. Today he is considered to …
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…either inserted between the lines unwillingly, or is the one and only intentional. Comparing this to the negative and offensive way the blaxploitation films dealt with stereotypes, it appears to be inane, but seems strange somehow.
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¹ Ebert; Roger; Chicago Sun-Times Online at:
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1991/06/653818.html; 17.01.2004
Works Cited
Gale, The African American Almanac, 7th ed., 1997; at: http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/lee_s.htm; 17.01.2004
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