{"id":2205,"date":"2019-05-14T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2019-05-14T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:45:51","slug":"lees-opening-credit-sequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/lees-opening-credit-sequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting upon Race Relations in Spike Lee&#8217;s Opening Credit Sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of over 30 years, Spike Lee has established himself as an outspoken auteur with a distinct style and a voice for Black America. Perhaps one of cinema\u2019s most controversial figures, Lee has consistently addressed the issue of the African American struggle through film. One of the more overlooked aspects of his filmmaking may be the attention Lee pays to his opening credit sequences and just how important they are in establishing his narrative, setting the tone, and giving context to a message he has delivered numerous times in his career&#8211;that African Americans have for centuries been subject to injustice.\u00a0 This visual essay from Joe Van Ryn and Dylan Johnson examines Lee&#8217;s title sequences for <em>School Daze, Do the Right Thing, <\/em>and <em>Malcolm X<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_KW3gh5o60o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(If the above video doesn&#8217;t play, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_KW3gh5o60o\">click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more overlooked aspects of Spike Lee&#8217;s filmmaking may be his opening credit sequences and how they establish a message he has delivered numerous times in his career.\u00a0 This visual essay from Joe Van Ryn and Dylan Johnson examines Lee&#8217;s title sequences for School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and Malcolm X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":2242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,80],"tags":[89,112,64,113,111,85],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criticism","category-left","tag-do-the-right-thing","tag-dylan-johnson","tag-joe-van-ryn","tag-malcolm-x","tag-school-daze","tag-spike-lee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/So-the-Right-Thing00021.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}