Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The third book in the series <i>Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled</i> offers a concise introduction to Critical Race Theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Spike Lee's critically acclaimed 2000 film <i>Bamboozled</i>. <br/><br/>The most common approach to issues of race and otherness continues to focus primarily on questions of positive vs. negative representations and stereotype analysis. Critical Race Theory instead designates a much deeper reflection on the constitutive role of race in the legal social and aesthetic formations of US culture including the cinema where <i>Bamboozled</i> provides endless examples for discussion and analysis. Alessandra Raengo's <i>Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled</i>is the first to connect usually specialized considerations of race to established fields of inquiry in the humanities particularly those concerned with issues of representation capital power affect and desire.