A Rhetoric of Symbolic Identity: An Analysis of Spike Lee's X and BamboozledUniversity Press of America, 2004 - 101 pages This study explores African American identity through film, drawing from Spike Lee's cinematic production of X (1992) and Bamboozled (2000). The study brings attention to how African American identity is negotiated in communicative interactions. In doing so, the study proposes an alternative rhetorical and cultural approach to the nuances of African American identity. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Statement of Research Problem | 6 |
Justification for the Study | 7 |
Justification for the Films | 8 |
Aims of the Study | 9 |
Theoretical Framework and Methodology | 11 |
Cultural Contract Theory of Negotiation | 13 |
Alienation | 15 |
Contract TheoryAnalysis I Bamboozled | 52 |
ReadytoSign Cultural Contract A | 53 |
ReadytoSign Cultural Contract B | 58 |
Contract TheoryAnalysis II X | 61 |
ReadytoSign Cultural Contract A | 64 |
SymbolicLinguistic | 65 |
SymbolicMaterial | 66 |
ReadytoSign Cultural Contract B | 67 |
DoubleConsciousness | 17 |
Hermeneutical Ethos | 19 |
Justification for Multiple Theories | 21 |
Methodology | 22 |
Literature Review | 23 |
Rhetorical Texts Pertaining to the Content of Films | 24 |
Bamboozled | 26 |
Literature Review of Identity | 28 |
Analysis | 35 |
Cultural Psychological Haven | 37 |
Socioeconomic Conditions | 39 |
Complicity of Negative Difference X | 43 |
Cultural Psychological Haven | 46 |
Socioeconomic Conditions | 50 |
Assimilation | 69 |
Cocreated Cultural Contract | 73 |
Analysis Questions | 79 |
Hermeneutical Ethos | 82 |
Alienation | 85 |
Overview | 91 |
Characters and the Contracts | 92 |
Breaching of Cultural Contracts | 93 |
Implications for the Future | 94 |
Glossary | 97 |
References | 99 |
About the Author | |
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