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The oppositional gaze is a term coined by bell hooks in the 1992 essay The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators that refers to the power of looking. According to hooks, an oppositional gaze is a way that a Black person in a subordinate position communicates their status. hooks' essay is a work of feminist film theory that discusses the male gaze, Michel Foucault, and white feminism in ...
Michele Faith Wallace was born on January 4, 1952, in Harlem, New York.She and her younger sister Barbara grew up in a black middle-class family. Her mother is Faith Ringgold, who was a teacher and college lecturer before becoming a widely exhibited artist.
The female gaze is a feminist theory term referring to the gaze of the female spectator, character or director of an artistic work, but more than the gender it is an issue of representing women as subjects having agency. As such, people of any gender can create films with a female gaze.
[25] [26] They, “go beyond resisting spectatorship and create a space for the "assertion of critical black female spectatorship as”... “they allow new transgressive possibilities for the formulation of identity.’” [26] In describing her own work, McCullough has said, “Stylistically, I have my own personal style. I like things that ...
Parks became one of the most impactful Black women in American history almost overnight when she refused to move to the “colored” section of a public bus in 1955. This act of protest kicked ...
The Jamaica international, one of the world’s best strikers, performed the Black Power salute during City’s 4-0 win over Liverpool in the Women’s Super League on Sunday, when she scored two ...
In her 1992 essay titled "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectatorship", [25] bell hooks counters Laura Mulvey's notion of the (male) gaze by introducing the oppositional gaze of Black women. This concept exists as the reciprocal of the normative white spectator gaze.
Charles Hicks, nicknamed “Mr. Black History’’ in Washington, D.C, remembered attending a Black History Month event in 2016 at the Department of Justice where his longtime friend, the late ...