Bulworth: The Hip-Hop Nation Confronts Corporate Capitalism A Review Essay
Keywords:
Bulworth, Political Satire, Democratic Socialism, Tragicomedy, Farce, SlapstickAbstract
A Scathing Political Satire on Corporate Capitalism,": In this review essay, James Allen and Lawrence Goodheart analyze Warren Beatty's 1998 film, Bulworth. The movie is a political satire that indicts the current corporate manipulation of American politics through a tragicomedy that blends manifesto with farce and the serious with slapstick. The film calls for democratic socialism and heralds the black urban underclass as its vanguard, reminiscent of Herbert Marcuse's formulation of a generation ago.
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