Racial Identity in Film

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In this paper, the basis of the three films studied here reflects the problem of history within racial perspectives. By analyzing the films "Star Wars", "Malcolm X" and "Amistad", the paper shows how post-structuralism reflect the problem of racial identity in modern cinematic perspectives. The intent to reflect a white hegemonic society may be unconscious on the part of the filmmakers, but surely, they do not accurately portend a multi-faceted truth in relation to the history they use in film production and direction.

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"This study will examine the nature of race within the films Amistad, Malcolm X, and Star Wars. By understanding how film depicts racism through post-structuralism in histrionics, one can realize the errors of race that are depicted within these modern films. Through an analysis of racial identity through history and the historical perspectives that reshape these identities through film, the basis of race becomes erroneously vague is representing the voice of African Americans in a white hegemonic society. The issue of post-structuralism in history is the format of how films should be judged in relation to race issues. Though this `lens' the various aspects of history, especially through various Anglo-Saxon historians does not portend an accurate identity and place for African Americans of the past."

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