I've seen a lot of Dolomite and Peaty Wheat Straw by Rudy Ray Moore, Willy Dynamite with Roscoe Orman, and The Mack with Max Julien and so on. The way these actors portrayed the characters of Willy Dynamite, Dolomite and Goldie, the way they talked, the way they walked more than likely set the black race back decades. Grabbing their groins and sliding in their stride, wearing large hats, capes and exaggerated gestures all contribute to creating threadbare stereotypes and ideals of the black race that still prevail today. In 1987, Robert Townsend wrote, starred in and directed a behind-the-scenes parody of these types of films called Hollywood Shuffle, while on the one hand Townsend shows his blackness by pointing out the obvious biased behavior of white studios, but also by showing the talent. and the search for recognition of the black actor. Townsend's almost biographical parody of film and television shows not only his talent as an actor but also his humor and the angst of being an actor chosen solely for the color of his skin. Robert Townsend through situational and dramatic irony and showing how white ideals shape the identity and depiction of what is black and how Hollywood has distorted it. Robert Townsend stars as Bobby Taylor, a struggling young actor with a healthy imagination and a dream of becoming a serious actor. The Bobby family reluctantly supports him in his endeavors, but his mother and grandmother played by Starletta DuPois and Helen Martin secretly pass judgment on his chosen career path while his colleague Donald and Tiny from the Winky- Dinky Dog played by co-writer Keenan Ivory Wayans. and Lou B. Washington openly mocks his dream. Bobby's dreams of playing Middle of Paper......ood Shuffle" and "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" are crushed. Cinema Journal 38.3 (1999): 50-66. JSTOR Arts & Sciences III. Web . December 3, 2011. Fanon, Frantz. Black skin, white mask New York: Grove, 1967. Print. Grant, William R. Post-soul black cinema: discontinuities, innovations and stopping points, 1970-1995. Routledge, 2004. Print. Harrison, C. “WJT Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want?: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 380 pages, 16 color plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings, $35. 24.50 ISBN 0-226-53245-3." Journal of Visual Culture 6.1 (2007): 160-63. Print."The Souls of Black Folk Study Guide - WEB Du Bois - ENotes.com." ENotes - Literature Study guides, lesson plans and more. Web. December 3, 2011. .Touré. Who's afraid of the after dark? : What it means to be black in New York: Free, 2011..