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Article: ST. CLAIR BOURNE.(Critical Essay)
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- Cineaste
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- June 22, 2001
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DOCUMENTING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPENDITURE EXPERIENCE
There is a telling moment roughly a third of the way into St. Clair Bourne's 1989 documentary Making Do the Right Thing. After watching the interactions among the cast and crew of Spike Lee's movie and the residents of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where it was filmed, we see an exchange between two of the actors, Danny Aiello and John Tur-turro. The transition is so seamless that it may take a moment to realize that we are watching a scene not only from Making Do the Right Thing but also from Do the Right Thing itself, and that Bourne has so skillfully blended his viewpoint with Lee's that, if ...