Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies
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Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies
Routledge, 1996
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: hbk ISBN 9780415918237
Description
In this study, Bell Hooks talks back to films she has watched as a way to engage the pedagogy of cinema - the way film teaches its audience. Interested by the issues movies raise - the ways cinema depicts race, sex, and class, this work not only brings together Hooks' essays on films such as "Paris is Burning" or the infamous "Whose Pussy Is It" essay about Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It", but also work on "Pulp Fiction", "Crooklyn" and "Waiting to Exhale". The author also examines the world of independent cinema. Here, conversations with filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash and Arthur Jaffa are linked with critical essays, including a piece on Larry Clark's "Kids", to show the radical possibility of cinema - that it can function subversively, as much as it functions to maintain the status quo.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Making Movie Magic Good Girls Look the Other Way Transgression and Transformation: Leaving Las Vegas Exotica: Breaking Down to Breakthrough Crooklyn: The Denial of Death Cool Cynicism: Pulp Fiction Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale. Kids: Transgressive Subjects - Reactionary Film Artistic Integrity: Race and Accountability Neo-Colonial Fantasies of Conquest: Hoop Dreams Doing it for Daddy: Black Masculinity in the Mainstream Thinking it Through Class: Paying Attention to The Attendant Back to the Avant-Garde: The Progressive Vision (Conversations and Interviews) Whats Passion Got to do With It? The Cultural Mix: Interview with Wayne Wang Confession - Filming Family: Camille Billops A Guiding Light: Charles Burnett Critical Contestations: Arthur Jaffa The Oppositional Gaze Is Paris Burning? Whose Pussy Is This: A Feminist Comment.
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: pb ISBN 9780415918244
Description
In Reel To Real, bell hooks talks back to films as a way to engage the pedagogy of cinema--the way film teaches its audience.
bell hooks comes to film as a cultural critic, fascinated by the issues movies raise--the ways cinema depicts race, sex, and class. Reel To Real collects hooks' classic essays on films such as Paris Is Burning or the infamous "Whose Pussy Is It" essay about Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, as well as newer work on Pulp Fiction, Crooklyn and Waiting To Exhale. hooks also examines the world of independent cinema. Conversations with filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and Arthur Jaffa are linked with critical essays, including a piece on Larry Clark's Kids, to show that cinema can function subversively as well as maintain the status quo.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Making Movie Magic Good Girls Look the Other Way Transgression and Transformation: Leaving Las Vegas Exotica: Breaking Down to Breakthrough Crooklyn: The Denial of Death Cool Cynicism: Pulp Fiction Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale Kids: Transgressive Subjects - Reactionary Film Artistic Integrity: Race and Accountability Neo-Colonial Fantasies of Conquest: Hoop Dreams Doing it for Daddy: Black Masculinity in the Mainstream Thinking it Through Class: Paying Attention to The Attendant Back to the Avant-Garde: The Progressive Vision (Conversations and Interviews) Whats Passion Got to do With It? The Cultural Mix: Interview with Wayne Wang Confession - Filming Family: Camille Billops A Guiding Light: Charles Burnett Critical Contestations: Arthur Jaffa The Oppositional Gaze Is Paris Burning? Whose Pussy Is This: A Feminist Comment
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