Do the Right Thing
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“The Right to the City in Do The Right Thing ” analyzes the right to the city theory from Lefebvre’s and Harvey’s perspective as represented in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989). The purpose of this paper is to... more
Diese Arbeit widmet sich dem Black Independent Cinema, unter dessen Sparte das New Black Cinema mit Fokus auf Spike Lee verhandelt wird. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass die Thematisierung von alltäglichem und systematischem Rassismus... more
Explores the ways in which Spike Lee positions hip-hop as both signifier and driver of black resistance in a post-civil rights American society in "Do the right thing". By utilizing hip-hop music and culture to propel the film's... more
Considerations of the past and possible futures for City Symphony films.
The distance between 1776 Declaration of Independence “right to happiness” and the empirical reality is enormous. Tragedies such as the one of Tamir Rice or Michael Brown are doubly revealing. On one side, these are clear cases of racial... more
Abstract:A pivotal scene in Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated film Do the Right Thing (1989) happens when the protagonist Mookie, played by Lee, throws a garbage can through Sal's Famous Pizzeria following the death of his friend Radio... more
Written for a course on experimetnal research methods, this work is also very much about experimental methods of conveyance. It is a website, of sorts, including images and sound, and it doesn't conform to strict traditions of academic... more