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What is oppositional gaze?

Conclusion

  • Power in looking
  • Media acts as tool of maintaining white supremacy
  • Rebellious nature of black male gaze
  • find agency in this gaze
  • Unequal viewing experience between black females and black males
  • Due to phallocentric nature of mainstream films
  • Looking relations is affected by the portrayal of black females (or absence)
  • Development of oppositional gaze
  • "cinematic visual delight is the pleasure of interrogation"
  • Hooks discusses the evolution of the black female spectator in relations to film and cinema
  • Black women have been forced to resist and be critical in order to derive pleasure
  • not only directed at the male gaze, and the idea of women as "less"
  • gained pleasure in interrogation and deconstruction.
  • Black women who were subjected to dehumanizing representation were most inclined to develop an oppositional gaze and give them a place in society where they did not have before.

Radical Departures in Film Industry

  • Black women do more than just resist
  • 'create alternative texts that are not solely reactions'
  • films that use classic Hollywood strategies to identify stereotypes and use it as a site of "critical intervention"
  • Illusions (1983)
  • Daughters of the Dust (1991)
  • Passion of Remembrance (1986)

The Oppositional Gaze

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