Americans In Film- Race, Gender, And
Hollywood Shuffle
Robert Townsend’s 1987 film “Hollywood Shuffle,” examines Black American actors’ demeaning experiences in Hollywood. Through mass media Townsend expos film executives’ practices of exploiting African American’s sexuality and identity. He reveals the social implications of white filmmakers who reserve demeaning film roles for minority actors. Townsend implicates filmmakers through visual images and dialogues that are depicted as racial mini skits. Furthermore, he depicts an historical ideology that chronicles filmmakers’ harmful typecasting practices that degrade and dehumanize blacks.
Townsend re-makes storylines that mimic classic movies featuring black actors and Blaxplioataion genre films which stereotype blacks. For instance, he depicts a gangster skit “Jive Time Jimmy’s Revenge, similar to JD’s Revenge a 1976 Blaxpliotaion film. Bobby Taylor (Robert Townsend’s character) an aspiring actor opens the first scene by rehearsing the......
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