"Fight the Power": Hip Hop and Civil Unrest in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

A pivotal scene in Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated film Do the Right Thing (1989) happens when the protagonist Mookie, played by Lee, throws a garbage can through Sal's Famous Pizzeria following the death of his friend Radio Raheem, who has been strangled by three white policemen. The action m...

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Veröffentlicht in:Transition. - Indiana University Press, 1957. - 8(2017), 2, Seite 183-207
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Veröffentlicht: 2017
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