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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

Review :
"This mixed view of theory, reality, popular art, and popular criticism...is effective in forcing a rethinking of the films in question." -"Publisher's Weekly "hooks is worth reading for her intelligent, passionate, and often convincing writings." -"The Onion "hooks...makes a compelling case to filmmakers for creating progressive images that 'transform the culture we live in'." -"Los Angeles Times "Those looking for insightful, sophisticated, and provocative views on cinema will enjoy and learn from "Reel to Real. The book is particularly insightful about issues of race and about the ways black women are depicted in film. It will appeal to a broad audience and will also be useful as a way to introduce discussions of race, class, and gender into courses in aesthetics, film, and cultural studies." -"The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "This is intellectual entertainment at its best." -"Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415918244
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 408 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0415918243
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
  • Width: 152 mm


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