![]() ![]() The essays could have benefited from more thoughtful organization. The essays that do not focus on a single film are equally successful: a discussion of the black female gaze recalls that slaves could be punished for looking, and another on representations of black masculinity notes that in movies with two male leads, one black and one white, such as Rising Sun, the white man plays the ""father"" role. The ""mock feminism"" of Waiting to Exhale (""an utterly boring show"") is exposed as hooks examines differences between the book and the movie. Quentin Tarantino-a filmmaker ""not afraid to publicly pimp his wares""-is taken to task for ingesting superficial aspects of black culture and spitting out the rest. ![]() A reading of reviews of Exotica shows that only the strip-joint portions of the movie were considered worthy of commentary. This mix of theory, reality, popular art and popular criticism (reviews and public reaction play a large part in her discussions) is effective in forcing a rethinking of the films in question. Hooks's essays on film are not film criticism: they are criticism of culture as viewed through the prism of film. ![]()
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