2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Mel Brooks's 1974 satirical Western — featuring a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) appointed to a racist frontier town — which uses Western genre conventions to satirize American racism and Hollywood's erasure of race from the Western genre.
Mel Brooks's 1987 parody of Star Wars — featuring Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) and President Skroob — a satirical comedy that targets the Star Wars franchise and Hollywood science fiction.