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J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 2 | P E R S P E C T I V E 5 7 R E S O U R C E S SPIKE LEE: DIRECTOR'S INSPIRATION BY DARA JEFFE, STACEY ALLAN For nearly four decades, Spike Lee has made movies that demand our attention. His extensive filmography reflects an unflinching critique of race relations in the United States, from the Student Academy wardwinning shortJoe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Headsand the eerreleantDo the Right Thingto the more recent scar winningBlacKkKlansmananda 5 Bloods. A lifelong cinephile and film scholar, Lee draws inspiration from other artists working across a range of eras, genres and global cinemas. He has also devoted much of his career to teaching the next generation of filmmakers. This book presents ees personal collection of original film posters and objects, photographs, artworks and more—many of these inscribed to Lee personally by filmmakers, stars, athletes, activists, musicians and others who have inspired his work in specific ways. GORDON PARKS: PITTSBURGH GREASE PLANT, 1944/46 BY DAN LEERS, PHILIP BROOKMAN, MARK WHITAKER, LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER, PETER W. KUNHARDT JR., ERIC CROSBY By 1944, Gordon Parks was hired by Standard Oil public relations to photograph the Penola, Inc. Grease Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylania in 1944. The images were used as marketing materials and made available to local and national newspapers, as well as corporate magazines and newsletters. The photographs, dramatically staged and lit and striking in their composition, showed the range of activities engaged by Black and white workers, divided as they were by roles, race and class. However, they served as much more than documentation of industry, enduring as an exploration of labor and its social and economic ramifications in World War II America by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Featuring more than 100 photographs, many previously unpublished, this is the first book to focus exclusively on Parks' photographs for the Standard Oil Company, illuminating an important chapter in his career prior to his landmark career as a staff photographer forLife. PASOLINI: THE APOCALYPTIC ANARCHIST BY HANS ULRICH RECK est known as the director ofTeorema,amma omaandSalo, ier aolo asolini was one of the most productie and ehilarating talents in 20th-century art. As well as being a filmmaker, Pasolini was also a wide-ranging and virtuosic writer, journalist and public intellectual. He used the spectrum of his life's work to chronicle and honor the outcasts and underclasses of society whose very existence, for Pasolini, constituted a form of resistance to the status quo.