Film & Media Studies | bell hooks's "Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators" @filmandmediastudieschannel | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 6 hours ago
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
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