A VISUAL FEAST OF CINEMATIC LITERATURE CHRONICLING Spike Lee from the 1980s to the present. More than film history, the 360-page collector's publication also renders and represents Afromerican cinema history, arts and its groundbreaking transition from the late 20th into 21st centuries. After viewing at least 50 pages, every reader will fully understand the meaning and purpose of telling fictional and factual Afromerican stories with lived experience authenticity. Spike  also certifies that comparing Lee to any other directorial personality or icon is at best lame, lazy, technically fraudulent, and ridiculous — as this gifted creator, straight out of Morehouse College and NYU's film school, stands on his own as a master American filmmaker. The movie directing game was genuinely changed by Spike Lee — regardless of his film budget — from the technical storytelling craft, the iconic floating character scenes, and the unique music. The game is also changing as the film industry, and it's technologies, rapidly evolves and innovates globally within and beyond the Afrodiaspora. We can only imagine what the "Spike Lee Joint" effect may have on metaverse movie making — as Lee makes more cinematic art, and teaches as a tenured professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. As a pictorial biography and journal about Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee's films, Spike  readers will also see the future, an evolution, and the foundational elements of American filmmaking. Spike  enables us to grasp the bigger cultural context of Spike Lee's directorial gifts. Colorfully edited with a wealth of visual detail using a majority of memorable photographs by his brother David Lee, this bright magenta and gold Spike  will be browsed often and referenced decades from now. This tightly edited gift book gives clearer context, via Lee, about new and legendary American filmmakers. Especially since, due mostly to Lee, more diverse, authentic and unique stories are now being imagined, written, directed, produced and globally streamed — reframing the movie matrix throughout and beyond Hollywood. DM   VIDEO►