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  1. She's Gotta Have It was Lee's first feature-length motion picture as a writer/director and is a landmark independent film of American cinema. He was initially inspired by viewing Akira Kurosawa 's Rashomon in film school.

  2. May 20, 2019 · The writer Trey Ellis later called this era “The New Black Aesthetic.” You see, Spike was the face of — and force behind — this new emergence of Black creatives who wanted to transform the art of movie-making.

  3. Back in 1986, the indie film world was atwitter over She’s Gotta’ Have It, a sparkling, low-budget but high-style debut by Spike Lee, who went on to become an outspoken leader among African-American directors.

  4. Dec 7, 2017 · The critic Greg Tate wrote about this scene as Lee’s “umpteenth revision of Irene Cara’s fall from grace in ‘Fame’—for Spike, female sexuality is just a step away from original sin.”

  5. Nov 17, 2017 · Nov. 17, 2017. “As a sex positive, polyamorous, pansexual,” Nola Darling, the 27-year-old heroine of Spike Lee’s new television series, “She’s Gotta Have It,” boldly declares in the...

  6. Aug 4, 2011 · "She's Gotta Have It changed the playing field," says Donald Bogle, film historian and author of Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters. "Spike Lee made the black filmmaker a viable...

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  8. Nov 21, 2017 · Thirty-one years ago, an ambitious New York University film student named Spike Lee became an instant cinema force with his debut feature She’s Gotta Have It, about a sexually independent...