![]() ![]() It can also reveal the ideologies and viewpoints of producers, such as newspapers – especially when bias exists – which is more common in right wing products. This gaze criticizes the doubling effect of objectification by “turning away one way to protest, to reject negation”.īell hooks’ theory can be used when exploring representations of gender and ethnicity, especially black women. Instead of creating a system where the strongest survives through oppression and coercion, she suggests that both men and women look to transform societal structures into something that is mutually supportive. In this book, Hooks gives hope that feminists around the world can create a mass feminist movement. Bell Hooks’ feminist theory looks to end oppression be redefining how power is obtained and maintained. ![]() The oppositional gaze serves as “a gesture of resistance” to not only the male gaze (see Laura Mulvey) but also toward the oppression of minorities through cinema by the all-inclusive gendering of woman. Readers have found the theory provocative and relevant. Looking implores a sense of power that is removed from the black female body, to play the role of object in direct relation to white female existence. In “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators”, hooks gives the rubric that black woman are not only underrepresented in film, but they are also not allowed to ‘look’ either. ![]()
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