Spike Lee

Spike Lee on the 15th Anniversary of 'Bamboozled'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 30, 2015

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Spike Lee film "Bamboozled."

Director, producer, writer and actor Spike Lee and Ashley Clark, guest curator for the BAMcinématek series on "Bamboozled" and the author of Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (The Critical Press, 2015), discuss the film, a satire about race in America, how relevant it still is and how people of color are represented in the media today.

→Event: BAM is hosting a series of film screenings and discussions related to the 15th anniversary of "Bamboozled." For a complete list of curated screenings and ticket information, click here.

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