1. Modern Day Race Relations and
The textual analysis of the proposed film will be made possible by viewing Three Kings on videocassette, and making specific notes about the key situations in the film. ... By calling the Iraqis "dune-coons-, Jonze is playing off of the bigotry "coon- stereotype that is historically applied to an African-American. ... As I mentioned before, Spike Jonze's character Conrad Vig starts labeling the Iraqis by racial slurs such as "dune-coon- and "towel-head."" ... Normally, I would not spend the last half of my paper writing, in effect, an ideological analysis, but for this particular movie...
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- Approx Pages: 7
- Grade Level: High School