Monthly Archives: February 2012

Readings: gentrification_harlem Seiving-Black Hollywood Meets New Hollywood-Landlord PROMPT: Ostensibly, The Landlord is about one white man who moves into a Black neighborhood.   But might we also read the film as being about neighborhood change more generally?  How might we evaluate … Continue reading →

Spike Lee’s depiction of the Bed-Stuy neighborhood is quite opposite of what it was in the past and what it is like now, and no, it was not a mistake. Lee portrayed the neighborhood in that specific way in order … Continue reading →

When reading the Ella Shohat article, I immediately saw the genius of Spike Lee’s movie. We have been seeing a lot of films lately where, as stated in an older article, white people are just thought of as “people”, while … Continue reading →

Do The Right Thing has to be the best movie out of all the movies we saw so far. It is one that realistically portrays the tension between different ethnicities that spend time in the same area. Although E.B. White’s … Continue reading →

           In all the movies that we’ve seen, I’ve admired the way the director sets the scene and mood at the beginning of each one. To do a quick comparison, I’ve noticed that the mood of … Continue reading →

In Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee makes obvious distinctions between the different races and cultures throughout the film. I feel like these characters were really caricatures, or amplified versions of actual stereotypes. The big distinctions and personalities of the … Continue reading →

The hate and bias among different races, at the beginning of the movie, are not powerful enough to reach the threshold to cause violence against each other, but as the narrative continuing, the verbally fights and hate finally rise to … Continue reading →

From the films I have seen until now, ghettoes and violence have deeply imprinted in my mind. Is that the New York City people are coming for? Perhaps we can get a satisfied answer from the Korean grocery store owners. … Continue reading →