- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC (Oct 1 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0802135757
- ISBN-13: 978-0802135759
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.3 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 395 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Marc Levin, Slam came in under the radar to become the surprise hit of Sundance. A gritty, inspiring portrait of urban poverty and the redemptive power of art, "Slam . . . seizes hold of your imagination", wrote Sundance juror Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly. "It's the kind of movie that makes you believe in movies".
Set in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City and in the infamous Washington, D.C., city jail, Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, a talented young poet and rapper who is busted on petty drug charges and sucked into the black hole of the criminal justice system. In jail, Ray meets Lauren, a volunteer teaching a writing class for prisoners. She encourages Ray m use his gift to give voice to the anguish of a generation of young men who have been thrown away.
Slam: The Book is more than just a screenplay. It also contains the poetry featured in the film, as well as behind-the-scenes filmmakers' and actors' diaries telling the story of the making of Slam in a two-week guerrilla shoot inside the walls of the D.C. jail and on the killing streets of the Anacostia housing projects in southeast Washington, D.C.
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A 1998 Sundance Film Festival winner, "Slam"--set in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City and in the infamous Washington, D.C., city jail--presents a gritty, inspiring portrait of urban poverty and the redemptive power of art. The book includes the full screenplay, poetry from the film, behind-the-scenes diaries, and more.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Stratton never had an original thought,
By bill west (Just got out) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Slam: The Book (Paperback)
I have read the book. I do not know for sure but I would bet that Mr. Stratton had nothing to do with this book.Why? Because I knew him in prison and he never ever had an original thought in his life..ever.
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Squeezing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Slam: The Book (Paperback)
How powerful. It re-questions me how to be myself as a human being in reality. What is freedom, what is a life, what is "the time"? It keeps questioning me without elicit answer that I must have been seeking by myself.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding, unexpected, poetic excellence on film.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Slam: The Book (Paperback)
I had searched and searched for movies that would expand my imagination and give me some sort of hope for tomorrow that there are people that still strive to make quality movies and write quality books. Thsi is definitely one of them. I read the book and then I saw the movie that went far beyond my expectations. What a sensory pleasure.
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