Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Do the Right Thing: Crash Course Film Criticism #6


Mainstream American films don’t often tackle race and racism head-on, and when they do, they often end up trying to find easy answers. Which makes films like Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing all the more powerful. It’s an intimate portrait of a Brooklyn neighborhood dealing with rising tensions on the hottest day of the year.

Explore...

Zhang Yimou - Visionary of China's past

Film: History, Production, and Criticism

House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal

DO THE RIGHT: THING ALL ABOUT FORM

House of Flying Daggers - mise-en-scene

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Under the Skin - Sound

Documentary: making of Do the Right Thing

Superimposition in film

Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece

New...

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Summer 2026 Examinations

E-Safety

Increase in Fees for Instrumental/Vocal lessons from September 2026

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

Discover...

Examinations ZEN GCE Film Studies Do The Right Thing Crashcourse YouTube Lessons Theory GCSE The Stories We Tell School Nurse Trips Aspen Russell Fallen Angels Test Assessment NEA Internet Safety Yimou Pan's Labyrinth Offscreen2 Coursework

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...