Representing

Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema

by S. Craig Watkins

1998 314 pages eng

In this book, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the most important developments in the recent history of black cinemathe ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films" like Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society. Representing explores a distinct contradiction in American socie…