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Inside Inside Man: Spike Lee and Post-9/11 Entertainment
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 50, Number 1, Fall 2010
- pp. 39-58
- 10.1353/cj.2010.a405347
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay examines Spike Lee's Inside Man in a post-9/11 context. Contrary to reviews that saw the film as apolitical entertainment, it argues that Lee, disguising his former didacticism as escapism, maintains a politically engaged approach to filmmaking in his depictions of ethno-racial tensions in a globalized United States.