Cinema and History : Oppressions: the Afro-American struggle for civil rights in genre cinema

School Daze

Spike Lee

1988

United States

2h01

Fiction

Col.

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.

Cast

Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Joe Seneca, Bill Nunn

Screenplay: Spike Lee
Photography: Ernest R. Dickerson
Sound: Kevin Lee, Peter Odabashian, Rolf Pardula
Music: Bill Lee
Art direction: Wynn Thomas
Editing: Barry Alexander Brown
Production: Spike Lee, Grace Blake, Loretha C. Jones, Monty Ross

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