
Este capítulo analiza Do the Right Thing como una compleja reflexión sobre la representación, la mirada y la responsabilidad del cine frente al conflicto racial. Esta lectura parte de la ambivalencia estructural del filme (entre lo teatral y lo cinematográfico, la ficción y la realidad, la denuncia y la celebración) para examinar cómo Spike Lee construye un dispositivo visual y narrativo basado en el choque de contrarios. El trabajo analiza la expresividad de la cámara, la función simbólica del color y del encuadre, así como la irrupción explícita del autor y del espectador en el texto. A través de estas estrategias, la película se revela como un ensayo sobre la percepción y la interpretación: el modo en que se mira y se es mirado. Más allá de la denuncia del racismo, Lee problematiza el propio acto de filmar la diferencia, haciendo del cine un espacio de tensión ética, estética y política. This chapter analyzes Do the Right Thing as a complex reflection on representation, the gaze, and the responsibility of cinema in the face of racial conflict. This reading starts from the film’s structural ambivalence—between the theatrical and the cinematic, fiction and reality, denunciation and celebration—in order to examine how Spike Lee constructs a visual and narrative dispositif based on the clash of opposites. The study explores the expressivity of the camera, the symbolic function of color and framing, as well as the explicit irruption of both the author and the spectator into the text. Through these strategies, the film reveals itself as an essay on perception and interpretation: on the way one looks and is looked at. Beyond its denunciation of racism, Lee problematizes the very act of filming difference, turning cinema into a space of ethical, aesthetic, and political tension.
Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, cinema and racism, racial conflict, cine y racismo, conflicto racial
Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, cinema and racism, racial conflict, cine y racismo, conflicto racial
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