Black History Month: Spike Lee and “Bamboozled”
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Spike Lee's 2000 film "Bamboozled," a hard-edged satire of blackface in cinema and television, was part of the 2023 class of National Film Registry and his fifth film to join the list. In an interview with the Library, he explains how the film is an answer to D.W. Griffith's notorious "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915, which set into play more than a century of racist tropes in films.
Posted in: African American History, Film, National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, Performing Arts