EIN MANN SIEHT SCHWARZ
MELVIN VAN PEEBLES USA, 1970
Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Melvin Van Peebles’s only studio vehicle critiques Hollywood’s facile representations of race with hilarity and subversiveness. By dismantling the lily-white aesthetics of the family sitcom, Watermelon Man exposes the hypocrisies of American liberalism.