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Examines developments in black cinema - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of ghettocentric films. The work examines a distinct contradiction in American society: black youth have become targets of a racial backlash but their popular cultures have become commercially viable.

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Introduction - black youth at century's end; social conservatism and the culture wars; black youth and the ironies of capitalism; black cinema and the changing landscape of industrial image making; producing the Spike Lee joint; Spike's joint; producing ghetto pictures; the ghettocentric imagination; epilogue - the culture industry and the hip hop generation

Representing Hip Hop Culture and the Production

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/1999
      ISBN13: 9780226874890, 978-0226874890
      ISBN10: 0226874893
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines developments in black cinema - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of ghettocentric films. The work examines a distinct contradiction in American society: black youth have become targets of a racial backlash but their popular cultures have become commercially viable.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - black youth at century's end; social conservatism and the culture wars; black youth and the ironies of capitalism; black cinema and the changing landscape of industrial image making; producing the Spike Lee joint; Spike's joint; producing ghetto pictures; the ghettocentric imagination; epilogue - the culture industry and the hip hop generation

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