Ridicule is turned back on the viewer
Does "ridicule is turned back on the viewer" mean "it in fact starts to ridicule the stereotyping behaviors of the viewers"?
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Not so far from the strategies adopted by Nike advertisers, Ofili has used the forms and images of popular culture to deal with similar issues of racial stereotyping, drawing from hip-hop and blaxploitation movies. His character Captain , for example, parodies blaxploitation stars and black comic-book heroes to the point where ridicule is turned back on the viewer, exposing the crudeness of the act of stereotyping rather than merely offering the cliché up for amusement.
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catttt Does "ridicule is turned back on the viewer" mean "it in fact starts to ridicule the stereotyping behaviors of the viewers"? That sounds right.
- catttt Does "ridicule is turned back on the viewer" mean "it in fact starts to ridicule the stereotyping behaviors of the viewers"?
- That sounds right.
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cattttDoes "ridicule is turned back on the viewer" mean "it in fact starts to ridicule the stereotyping behaviors of the viewers"?
That sounds right.
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