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A film appreciation and analysis podcast hosted by Victor Omoayo! A seasonal show with new episodes posted on Sundays. Find DO THE FILM THING on various platforms via Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dothefilmthing. Email the show at dothefilmthing@gmail.com
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Sunday Aug 11, 2024
Sunday Aug 11, 2024
August 11, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores two poignant and biting satires on race and media, Robert Townsend's 1987 debut film Hollywood Shuffle and Spike Lee's 2000 feature Bamboozled.
Written, edited and produced by Victor Omoayo
Sources for this episode:
Barlowe, Jamie. “‘You Must Never Be a Misrepresented People’: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, Jan. 2003, p. 1. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.wheatonma.idm.oclc.org/10.3138/CRAS-s033-01-01.
Black, Ray. “Satire’s Cruelest Cut: Exorcising Blackness in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.” Black Scholar, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring 2003, p. 19. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.wheatonma.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/00064246.2003.11413200.
Blakemore, Erin. "The Fair‑Skinned Black Actress Who Refused to ‘Pass’ in 1930s Hollywood." HISTORY, 26 Jan. 2021, https://www.history.com/news/fredi-washington-black-actress-hollywood-jim-crow-era.
Clark, Ashley and Lee, Spike. "In Conversation: Spike Lee with Ashley Clark". Interview. Bamboozled, Criterion Collection, 2019.
Townsend, Robert. Audio Commentary. Hollywood Shuffle. Criterion Collection. 2023.
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