Confederate States Of America Film Analysis

The film “Confederate States of America” is a quasi-documentary film about the history of an America. Through the eye of a British “documentary” this film takes a satirically, humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at Civil War won by the South.
First thing this work is take into consideration are advertisements. The director, Kevin Willmott, cuts the film with some commercials and with a news broadcast. Most of the ads are fake though they make the viewer thrilled, because of their racists and sexists’ overtone. The Blacks are presented as the things, pets, servants, and possessions. They have no voice, no rights, they are loyal to theirs masters and happy to be govern by a superior white race. . The commercials in which we can see the
Such companies protect you, your family, and all things you have got, a car, a house, a nigger… Another example of the way the blacks are treated is an ad of a pill called “Contrari”. Thanks to that newest discovery of veterinarians your Niger would always be happy, and would not make any problems. What is more, for those Blacks who have tendency to run away from their cozy masters’ homes, Americans scientist invented The Shackle, the revolutionary way of servant monitoring. This commercial has its imaginary origins. The Confederate doctor Samuel A. Cartwright claimed that beloved slaves, have tendency to suffer from a disease called “Draptomania” which causes slaves to run away. Moreover, in CSA there is a Department of Commerce Office of Racial Identity. Thanks to that institution every white citizen could report a questionable racial identity of a neighbor, or someone at work and might be eligible for a cash reward for reporting it. This institution has got its origins in the fact that back to the early 1890s there were many mixed raced men and women, and then they were harder to recognized, and they often tried to act as whites. Commercials also presents some