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Hooks's essays on film are not film criticism: they are criticism of culture as viewed through the prism of film. 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. A reading of reviews of Exotica shows that only the strip-joint portions of the movie were considered worthy of commentary. 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. The "mock feminism" of Waiting to Exhale ("an utterly boring show") is exposed as hooks examines differences between the book and the movie. 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 essays could have benefited from more thoughtful organization. Hooks refers to her first-ever film-related essay, on Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, in her introduction and elsewhere, but the essay does not appear until the final pages of the book. A piece on the accountability of filmmakers that involves Wayne Wang would have matched up nicely with a dialogue with Wang, which instead is sandwiched in a group of interviews with Arthur Jaffa, Camille Billops and the like.
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"...hooks is worth reading for her intelligent, passionate and often convincing writings." -- The Onion
"...this is intellectual entertainment at its best." -- Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco
"hooks...makes a compelling case to filmmakers for creating progressive images that 'transform the culture we live in'." -- Los Angeles Times
This is intellectual entertainment at its best.
–Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco
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
This mixed view of theory, reality, popular art, and popular criticism...is effective in forcing a rethinking of the films in question.
–Publishers Weekly
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
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
hooks...makes a compelling case to filmmakers for creating progressive images that transform the culture we live in.
–Los Angeles Times
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Hooks's essays on film are not film criticism: they are criticism of culture as viewed through the prism of film. 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. A reading of reviews of Exotica shows that only the strip-joint portions of the movie were considered worthy of commentary. 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. The "mock feminism" of Waiting to Exhale ("an utterly boring show") is exposed as hooks examines differences between the book and the movie. 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 essays could have benefited from more thoughtful organization. Hooks refers to her first-ever film-related essay, on Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, in her introduction and elsewhere, but the essay does not appear until the final pages of the book. A piece on the accountability of filmmakers that involves Wayne Wang would have matched up nicely with a dialogue with Wang, which instead is sandwiched in a group of interviews with Arthur Jaffa, Camille Billops and the like.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"...hooks is worth reading for her intelligent, passionate and often convincing writings." -- The Onion
"...this is intellectual entertainment at its best." -- Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco
"hooks...makes a compelling case to filmmakers for creating progressive images that 'transform the culture we live in'." -- Los Angeles Times
This is intellectual entertainment at its best.
–Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco
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
This mixed view of theory, reality, popular art, and popular criticism...is effective in forcing a rethinking of the films in question.
–Publishers Weekly
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
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
hooks...makes a compelling case to filmmakers for creating progressive images that transform the culture we live in.
–Los Angeles Times
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Spike Lee, United States, Suzanne Suzanne, Charles Burnett, Tina Turner, Julie Dash, Finding Christa, The Bodyguard, Daughters of the Dust, Camille Billops, John Singleton, Nola Darling, The Glass Shield, African American, Dorothy Dandridge, Kathleen Collins, New York City, Reservoir Dogs, Whitney Houston, Denzel Washington, Falling Down, Haile Gerima, Jackie Robinson, John Coltrane, Oscar Micheaux New!
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- Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino on 6 pages
- Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash on 5 pages
- Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan on 4 pages
- Reservoir Dogs: The Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino on page 48, page 50, and page 74
- Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien in Front Matter, page 21, and page 22
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- Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life by bell hooks in Front Matter
- Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks in Front Matter
- Postcolonial Masquerades: Culture and Politics in Literature, Film, Video, and Photography (Literary Criticism Andcultural Theory: the Interaction of Text and Society) by Nita in Back Matter
- Perspectives on Social Problems, Volume 11 (Perspectives on Social Problems) by J.A. Holstein on page 22
- Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power (a boundary 2 book) by Paul Bové in Back Matter
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