- Title Pages
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword by the series editor
- Introduction: foot notes
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Chapter 1 Max’s stylish shoes -
Chapter 2 A girl and a shoe: Marcel Fabre’s Amor pedestre -
Chapter 3 ‘An intensive study of – feet!’ in two films by Lois Weber: Shoes and The Blot -
Chapter 4 Magic shoes: Dorothy, Cinderella, Carrie -
Chapter 5 The ruby slippers at the V&A: an odyssey -
Chapter 6 Blood-red shoes? -
Chapter 7 The two textures of invisibility: shoes as liminal questionings in Sullivan’s Travels -
Chapter 8 How to see through a shoe: the fashion show sequence in How to Marry a Millionaire -
Chapter 9 Frenetic footwear and lively lace-ups: the spectacle of shoes in Golden Age Hollywood animation -
Chapter 10 Ferragamo’s shoes: from silent cinema to the present1 -
Chapter 11 Feet of strength: the sword-and-sandals film -
Chapter 12 Men in boots: on spectacular masculinity and its desublimation -
Chapter 13 ‘The brunette with the legs’: the significance of footwear in Marnie -
Chapter 14 The sole of Africa: shoes in three African films -
Chapter 15 Slippers and heels: In the Mood for Love and sartorial investigation -
Chapter 16 Sex, corruption and killer heels: footwear in the Korean corporate crime drama -
Chapter 17 It’s gotta be the shoes: Nike in the Spike-o-sphere -
Chapter 18 ‘Nice shoes’: Will Smith, mid-2000s (post) racial discourse and the symbolic significance of shoes in I, Robot and The Pursuit of Happyness -
Chapter 19 ‘Whoa! Look at all her Louboutins!’ Girlhood and shoes in the films of Sofia Coppola -
Chapter 20 Isabelle’s espadrilles, or, les chaussures d’Huppert - Index
It’s gotta be the shoes: Nike in the Spike-o-sphere
It’s gotta be the shoes: Nike in the Spike-o-sphere
- Chapter:
- (p.229) Chapter 17 It’s gotta be the shoes: Nike in the Spike-o-sphere
- Source:
- Shoe Reels
- Author(s):
Jeff Scheible
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter traces the history and significance of Nike shoes within the auteurist mediascape that Spike Lee has cultivated for over three decades. Lee has steadily created his own dynamic, paracinematic universe that both parallels the logic of Hollywood’s dominant mode of production and resists some of its core tenets by retaining at its centre the distinct idea of the auteur—precisely what transmedial storytelling and postmodern textuality are often viewed to have obliterated. The chapter focuses on the beginning of Lee’s professional career in the 1980s and its current moment, noting the strong affinities between these moments both in American culture and in Lee’s work, which are intimately bound up with one another. Examining Lee’s career in this way provides insight into Lee’s engagement with the problem of police brutality and the enduring injustices faced by the black community in the US.
Keywords: Spike Lee, Nike, Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989), She’s Gotta Have it (Spike Lee, 1986), Michael Jordan, Instagram
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword by the series editor
- Introduction: foot notes
-
Chapter 1 Max’s stylish shoes -
Chapter 2 A girl and a shoe: Marcel Fabre’s Amor pedestre -
Chapter 3 ‘An intensive study of – feet!’ in two films by Lois Weber: Shoes and The Blot -
Chapter 4 Magic shoes: Dorothy, Cinderella, Carrie -
Chapter 5 The ruby slippers at the V&A: an odyssey -
Chapter 6 Blood-red shoes? -
Chapter 7 The two textures of invisibility: shoes as liminal questionings in Sullivan’s Travels -
Chapter 8 How to see through a shoe: the fashion show sequence in How to Marry a Millionaire -
Chapter 9 Frenetic footwear and lively lace-ups: the spectacle of shoes in Golden Age Hollywood animation -
Chapter 10 Ferragamo’s shoes: from silent cinema to the present1 -
Chapter 11 Feet of strength: the sword-and-sandals film -
Chapter 12 Men in boots: on spectacular masculinity and its desublimation -
Chapter 13 ‘The brunette with the legs’: the significance of footwear in Marnie -
Chapter 14 The sole of Africa: shoes in three African films -
Chapter 15 Slippers and heels: In the Mood for Love and sartorial investigation -
Chapter 16 Sex, corruption and killer heels: footwear in the Korean corporate crime drama -
Chapter 17 It’s gotta be the shoes: Nike in the Spike-o-sphere -
Chapter 18 ‘Nice shoes’: Will Smith, mid-2000s (post) racial discourse and the symbolic significance of shoes in I, Robot and The Pursuit of Happyness -
Chapter 19 ‘Whoa! Look at all her Louboutins!’ Girlhood and shoes in the films of Sofia Coppola -
Chapter 20 Isabelle’s espadrilles, or, les chaussures d’Huppert - Index
