When Delacroix is discussing his proposal to Dunwitty, the answer of the latter is rephrased as “the people want the black people to act within the boundaries of their stereotypes, and they do not want the black to act like white people”. Where in the world of media, the rating is the public opinion, and if the product has a high rating, accordingly it is demanded and the participants are paid. This system maintains this power through the demand factor. The power that assigns those roles is held within the society itself, where the formed situation is mostly controlled by the public opinion. Thus, it is seen that Lee has shown that roles are already given and each person should play within his/her role. The difference is as stated in “Cultural Studies: Theory and Practices” by Christ Barker, “the racism continues to be treated as an issue of illiberality rather than of structured inequality.” (Chris Barker 268)Īt first it seems as though the stereotypes has changed, where there is Pierre Delacroix – an educated black man, working in a respectable job, speaking fluently and with good manners.Īfter that it can be seen that in that in Lee’s created world the color remains as an issue, as in providing the text for a decent sitcom without exploiting black stereotypes, he is accused of being white. However, unlike the previous times everything is veiled in a way it seems ordinary. The ideology of the world created by Spike Lee to some extent represents the existence of racial stereotypes in modern America, specifically in media, as a slogan that nothing has changed. This paper analyzes the aforementioned work as a modern cultural representation of identity and established stereotypes in modern society stating that stereotypes of specific social or ethnic group can be formed willingly in addition to being forced, where as time passes by, they only change the shape and take another direction. In the basis of this definition, “Bamboozled” a film by Spike Lee uses satire as a tool to express his anger against what is considered as media stereotypes of black people. The issues that the author considers as the most depraved are ridiculed, where a satire could be addressing an episode, an image or social phenomena. Satire – a demonstration of comic moments in art, representing deteriorative exposure of various phenomenon using different comic means such as sarcasm, irony, parody and etc. In context of satire merging laughs with pain could be an effective way to alert to some existent problems that disturb the society.
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