Oct 30, 2015
From Bamboozled. Savion Glover as modern minstrel in Spike Lee’s controversial film of 2000. It screened this week at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) heading up a weeklong program “Behind the Mask: Bamboozled in Focus.” Curator Ashley Clark also takes a deep look at Lee’s film, exposing its roots and lasting influences, in his new book “Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.” Read excerpt at http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/06/bamboozled-spike-lee-masterpiece-race-in-america?CMP=twt_a-film_b-gdnfilm
