The, 1984 ) And Juice By Ernest Dickerson - 987 Words

Both The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles, 1984) and Juice (Ernest Dickerson, 1992) share the similar purpose of Blaxploitation which redefine the critical perspective about the stereotypical good and evil ideologies of the African Americans and reveal the blacks’ position in American society. However, by mobilizing close textual analysis on both films Brother and Juice, as well as the articles from Janani Subramanian and Kenneth Chan, I want to argue that the diversities of the films genres endow distinctive approaches to address the issue. In the Brother, the science fiction genre serves as a mask which provides the chance to dodge the seriousness of facing the racial issue directly by disguising the black identity under an alienated character, yet endows the possibilities to embrace the topic underneath it. Whereas the action genre in Juice can presents more radically about the conflicts between the African American youths with the society and themselves on the dail y life base because the violence element is granted and expected in an action movie. By comparing and analyzing the social and political position of blacks in American society in two films, we can come to a better understand how the allowance towards alienation and violence elements reflects distinctively on science fiction and action movie genres. The property of science fiction establishes an environment of a pure fantasy which undermines the seriousness of the discrimination issue by employing