Mike Reynolds (4) (1967–)
Auteur van How to Analyze the Films of Spike Lee (Essential Critiques)
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- Geboortedatum
- 1967
- Opleiding
- St. Lawrence University (BA | English)
University of Southern California (PhD | English) - Beroepen
- English professor
- Organisaties
- Hamline University
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But in a good way!
Kids these days have it so easy. The Internet, smartphones, healthcare…and now Mike Reynolds! Back (way back) when I was young, we had VCRs, Walkmans, band aids and NO MIKE REYNOLDS! We were left to find our own way through the jungle of film analysis. How did we do it? I remember when my parents first bought a VCR -- I came home to find them watching High Road to China. And you know what? I still have no idea what that movie is about (but if you check out the web page for it at amazon, you'll notice that the comment voted "most helpful" is very much unhelpful and is written by a guy from my hometown because that's how we roll). I've been confused ever since! It's like there's this big mustache between me and whatever movie I'm watching.
Don't get yourself lost like me! Beat back the mustache before it's too late! That's the beauty of this book: while it overtly concerns itself with the oeuvre of Spike Lee, it also offers up a pallete of various (palatable) critical theories that will help the reader better appreciate and understand cinema (and the most concise definition of structuralism I've ever read -- I'd post it here, but NO SPOILERS! Go buy your own copy!).
My only problem with the book is that it doesn't include a picture of this beneficent demigod of an author. As such, I've taken the liberty of including what I believe him to look like:
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