bell hooks's 'Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators'

An overview of bell hooks's essay "Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators" that situates it as a response to Manthia Diawara's essay "Black Spectatorship" as well as a response to Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Parts of hooks's essay will be juxtaposed with a sequence from Julie Dash's short film Illusions (1982).

[IvyAnnabelle]

I am currently writing my final year dissertation and the way you broke down this theory has helped me in so many ways! I really appreciate this so much because my lecturers don't talk break down topics regarding race well!

[IftinAbshir]

Thank you for this video! I am going to share it with my FTV4 students at UCLA because our mini unit on feminist film studies doesn't really address women of colour and I think it's so important they are aware of this scholarship!

[FlyingPeanutKnight]

As a film student, I really appreciate your videos. These lectures are better put together than most of my classes and having them on YouTube where I can go back to the parts I have more trouble understanding is great. Keep at it, you deserve way more views for the work your doing,

[ambernicolettem]

I am putting hooks' theory in conversation with Morrison's novel Sula, thank you for this video! our feminist thought class at CU Denver has multiple modules on BIPOC feminist theorists & bell hooks is one of my favourites :)

[nicsonnicson]

Thank you very much sir, this video is very helpful when I make a book review assignment.

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