Research Catalog

Title

Spike Lee screenplays, 1980-1990.

Author

Lee, Spike,

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

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Details

Additional Authors

Lee, Spike.

Description

4

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.

Subjects

• Motion picture plays
• Motion picture plays > United States
• Lee, Spike
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States
• African American authors
• African American motion picture producers and directors
• African Americans in the motion picture industry
• Authors > United States
• Scripts
• African Americans in television broadcasting
• African Americans in motion pictures

Genre/Form

• Motion picture plays.
• Scripts.

Source (note)

• African American Resources Corp.

Biography (note)

• Screenwriter, actor, director and producer of motion pictures and music videos.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of Screenplay collection.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Sc MG 668

Author

Lee, Spike, screenwriter.

Title

Spike Lee screenplays, 1980-1990.

Summary

Collection includes photocopies of four screenplays. Titles are: "She's gotta have it," 1985 (fourth draft); "Do the right thing," 1988 (second draft); "Mo' better blues," 1989 (second draft); "Jungle fever," 1990 (second draft).

Biography

Screenwriter, actor, director and producer of motion pictures and music videos. Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1957, where he attended Morehouse College, 1979. He continued his education at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in film production. Spike Lee has established himself as one of Hollywood's most important and influential filmmakers in the past decade. In 1986, his debut film, the independently produced comedy, "She's gotta have it" earned him the Prix de Jeunesse Award at the Cannes Film festival and set him at the forefront of the Black Wave in American Cinema

In addition to his achievements in feature films, Lee produced and directed numerous music videos for such diverse artists as Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman, Anita Baker and Bruce Hornsby. Additionally, Spike has authored six books on the making of his films. He is the founder and director of Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Brooklyn, established in 1986. Spike Lee's awards include: Student Director's Award from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1982, for "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barber Shop: we cut heads"; Prix de Jeunesse from Cannes Film Festival and New Generation Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics, both 1986, for "She's gotta have It."

Linking Entry

Forms part of Screenplay collection.

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Finding aid

Added Author

Lee, Spike. She's gotta have it.

Lee, Spike. Do the right thing.

Lee, Spike. Mo' better blues.

Lee, Spike. Jungle fever.

Added Title

Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 668