The oppositional gaze: black female spectators Critical contestations: a conversation with A.J. A guiding light: an interview with Charles Burnett Confession - filming family: an interview with Camille Billops The cultural mix: an interview with Wayne Wang

What's passion got to do with it? an interview with Marie-France Alderman Back to the avant-garde: the progressive vision Thinking through class: paying attention to The Attendant Doing it for daddy: black masculinity in the mainstream Neo-colonial fantasies of conquest: Hoop Dreams Artistic integrity: race and accountability Kids: transgressive subjects - reactionary film Transgression and transformation: Leaving Las Vegas Her conversations with filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and Arthur Jaffa are linked with critical essays to show how cinema can function subversively, even as it maintains the status quo. Reel to Real brings together Hooks's classic essays (on Paris is Burning or Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have it) with her newer work on such films as Girl 6, Pulp Fiction, Crooklyn, and Waiting to Exhale, and her thoughts on the world of independent cinema. Bell Hooks comes to film not as a film critic but as a cultural critic, fascinated by the issues movies raise - the way cinema depicts race, sex, and class. In Reel to Real, Bell Hooks talks back to films she has watched as a way to engage the pedagogy of cinema - how film teaches its audience. Occasionally they have the power to transform lives.

Her conversations with filmmakers Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and Arthur Jaffa are linked with critical essays to show how cinema can function subversively, even as it maintains the status quo.'-BOOK JACKET.Īlthough it may not be the goal of filmmaker, most of us learn something when we watch movies. 'Bell Hooks comes to film not as a film critic but as a cultural critic, fascinated by the issues movies raise - the way cinema depicts race, sex, and class. In Reel to Real, Bell Hooks talks back to films she has watched as a way to engage the pedagogy of cinema - how film teaches its audience.'-BOOK JACKET.

'Although it may not be the goal of filmmaker, most of us learn something when we watch movies. Reel to real : race, sex, and class at the movies / Bell Hooks Book Bib ID

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