Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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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).

Black Spectatorship, Part 1 (Manthia Diawara): youtu.be/iXjR4PQIvK0

Black Spectatorship, Part 2 (bell hooks): youtu.be/wc6IcnQY-Tg

Black Spectatorship, Part 3 (bell hooks and GET OUT): youtu.be/xe3GuwYKt_o