Spike Lee

Spike Lee
ISBN-10
1438118503
ISBN-13
9781438118505
Series
Spike Lee
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
137
Language
English
Published
2009-01-01
Publisher
Infobase Publishing
Author
Dennis Abrams

Description

A biography of one of the United States' foremost filmmakers, whose provocative films explore many aspects of African American experience, and who, in his own words, "broke the color barrier" in Hollywood in the mid 1980s.

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