{"id":2217,"date":"2019-05-14T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2019-05-14T09:44:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:44:26","slug":"does-she-still-gotta-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/does-she-still-gotta-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Does She Still Gotta Have It?: Spike Lee&#8217;s 2017 Netflix Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Lee broke out as a successful film maker with his 1986 comedy <em>She&#8217;s Gotta Have It<\/em>. While well-reviewed, it was criticized by feminist scholar bell hooks and others for its one-dimensional, problematic character portrayal of its men <em>and<\/em> women. As Spike Lee continued growing as a filmmaker, his depictions of women improved with films such as <em>Crooklyn<\/em> and <em>Bamboozled<\/em> and their strong female characters. In\u00a0 2017, Spike Lee returned to remake his first success as a newly revitalized series for Netflix, giving his character Nola Darling a fresh perspective, thanks to a behind-the-scenes team of women writers leading the way. This visual essay takes a close look at both the original and remake of <em>She&#8217;s Gotta Have it<\/em>, while also examining progressive steps Spike Lee has taken along the way to develop female characters who are successful, strong modern women.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cN4R775pHXA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0 2017, Spike Lee returned to remake his first success, She&#8217;s Gotta Have It, as a newly revitalized series for Netflix, giving his protagonist Nola Darling a fresh perspective, thanks to a behind-the-scenes team of women writers leading the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":2220,"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":[1,81],"tags":[9,110,85],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criticism","category-right","tag-kyra-beske","tag-shes-gotta-have-it","tag-spike-lee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/Shes-Gotta-Have-It.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}