![]() ![]() What are your general reactions to the piece? How and why does it (not) work for you as a reader? Who do you think it was written for, and how can you tell? Was this work difficult to get through? Why? The author here asks us to consider some of the things that we take for granted about the experience of watching movies, and provides us with helpful insights towards understanding how movies can affect us, and why it matters that they do. Also, I asked you guys to read this piece because it raises important(/difficult?) questions about how we can critically engage with film as a genre. First, hooks is pretty widely recognised scholar in the humanities, generally speaking, and her discussions from the position of being a Black Feminist academic (and cultural critic) can be helpful ways of leading us to investigate subtextual elements of identity issues in pop culture phenomena. I asked you guys to read bell hooks' introductory essay, 'Making Movie Magic' to her larger work, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies for a couple of reasons. ![]()
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