Edited reports of political events come in the recognised genres of daily news and documentaries, but we will focus on one particular instance of cinematic fact-fiction: Spike Lee's controversial 2000 satire, Bamboozled. How does representation change from one video genre to the next? How do the expectations of the audience change when confronted with the same political issue through different media? We will screen the film in class.
Preparation:
Excerpts from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Desist from reading about the film before class (but for the akratic among us, try this)