Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Zakos, Katharine P Author's Email Address kzakos1@hotmail.com URN etd-04212009-163930 Title Racial Satire and Chappelle's Show Degree Master of Arts Department Communications Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Mary Stuckey Committee Chair Dr. Alessandra Raengo Committee Member Dr. Alisa Perren Committee Member Dr. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley Committee Member Keywords
- Representation of women
- Performance of race
- Stereotypes
- Satire
- Chappelle’s Show
- Circuit of culture
- Audience reception
- Perspective by incongruity
Date of Defense 2009-04-07 Availability unrestricted Abstract This thesis examines Chappelle's Show’s use of racial satire to challenge dominant stereotypes and the effectiveness of that satire as a tool to achieve perspective by incongruity. I use a variation of D’Acci’s circuit of media study model to examine the institutional challenges and limitations on the show due to the context in which it was created, produced, and distributed; to interrogate the strategies employed by the show’s writers/creators to overcome these challenges through the performance of race; and to analyze the audience’s understanding of the use of racial satire through a reception study of the show’s audience. I argue that using satire often has the unintended consequence of crossing the line between “sending up” a behavior and supporting it, essentially becoming that which it is trying to discount, though this is not to say that its intrinsic value is therefore completely negated.Files
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