A Semiotic Analysis of The Bodyguard
When watching The Bodyguard I realized that the film was made in the early 90s and I observed overt text that already has been uninhabitable. But considering the nature and length of this paper I will focus more on tacit and ideologically loaded text or text that has naturalized representations of prejudicial presumptions threaded through them that bas been excepted as “unquestioned assumptions” (Hall 20). Specifically, through semiology, I will look at the film The Bodyguard through the critical lens of exoticism and analyze the structures of meaning and origin of the text (Van Zoonen 74). Exoticism embodies the sense of romanticized “otherness” or being foreign (Van Zoonen 82). It is often associated with images and ideologies of primitive, earthly, natural, savage and sexuality (Van Zoonen 84), Defined by bell hooks, exoticism is first and foremost marked by racial difference and closely connected to colonization. Black females are stereotypically portrayed as untrustworthy, “oversexed, sexual initiators and woman of experience” in The Bodyguard (hooks 56). Historically, the image of the exotic, especially the black female, “provided a wonderful occasion to fantasize about all that was forbidden…”(Van Zoonen 84).
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Approximate Word count = 1009
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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