Spike Lee

Spike Lee is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor whose work examines race, politics, and life in the United States.

Do the Right Thing: A 1989 film by Spike Lee set on a Brooklyn block during a sweltering summer day. Its escalating neighborhood conflict makes this film a defining example of Lee's filmmaking.
Double dolly shot: A camera technique that moves an actor and camera together, making the actor appear to glide through a setting. Lee's use of this disorienting movement turns characters' inner states into striking images.
Denzel Washington: An American actor whose screen roles include Malcolm X in Spike Lee's 1992 film. Washington's performance anchors Lee's biographical film and their lasting collaboration.
Morehouse College: A historically Black men's college in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1867. Lee studied at Morehouse, where his early filmmaking interests developed.
Malcolm X: A 1992 biographical film directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington as Malcolm X. Lee turns the civil rights leader's life into an expansive historical portrait.
Breaking the fourth wall: A technique in which performers acknowledge the audience or the constructed nature of a work. Lee uses direct address to make characters' perspectives confront the film's audience.
Wesley Snipes: An American actor who played Nino Brown in Spike Lee's 1991 film Jungle Fever. Snipes's role in Jungle Fever helped make Lee's treatment of interracial desire widely discussed.
Tisch School of the Arts: New York University's school for the performing, cinematic, and media arts. Lee earned a master of fine arts degree in film from Tisch.
BlacKkKlansman: A 2018 film by Spike Lee based on Black police officer Ron Stallworth's infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan. Its mix of crime story and racial satire shows Lee revisiting American history.
Montage: A sequence of edited shots that compresses time, compares images, or builds an idea through juxtaposition. His films use juxtaposed images to connect personal stories with public history.

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