LIBS 317 - The Films of Spike Lee

3 Credit(s)
3 Lecture Hour(s)
0 Lab Hour(s)

This course takes a critical analysis approach to the study of the work of Spike Lee. It examines the representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality in Lee’s “joints” from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course looks critically at Lee’s work within the broad historical framework of African American cultural history and explores Lee’s engagement with numerous controversial social, political, and economic issues in American society.