Background
When was bell hooks born? (mm/dd/yyyy)
what is September 25, 1952?
Commodity culture
what is exploits the thinking of race, gender, and sexual desire and alters the cultural meanings to fit market demands?
O.J Simpson Trial:
What is used to demonstrate ho celebrity and race contribute to public opinion and media representation>
How does bell hooks use the film "Smoke"? (first sentence)
What is to illustrate how changing the race of a thief to Black works to perpetuate bad stereotypes?
Marginalization (full key point)
What is Black characters and their experiences are pushed to the margins, reinforcing the idea that their stories are less important or interesting than those of white characters?
What did bell hooks examine?
what is connections between race, gender and class?
Benetton Ads
What is racially diverse images became a model for various advertising strategies and focus solely on visual messages rather than verbal?
How does bell hooks dissect Madonna's professional trajectory?
Films bell hooks critiques and representations (found on second page front and back)
What is films "Heart Condition", "Smoke", and "The Cook, the thief, His Wife, and Her Lover", and Les Blancs
The second key point
What is Reinforcement of Dominance?
What is bell hooks argument on the commodification of otherness?
what is that race, gender, and sexual desire are increasingly exploited and altered to fit market demands?
Commodified Blackness
What is the popular consumption of black culture by white crowds are criticized herin, explaining how it rejects cultural meaning and makes it a sellable commodity?
Spike Lee
What is An example of how Black directors handle the requests and streotypical expectations of Hollywood?
How does bell hooks critique the film, "the Cook, he Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover"? (first sentence)
The key point of Lack of Authenticity (First sentence)
Day of death
what is 15th?
White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
What is interlocking systems of dominance?
Fill in: "They claim the body of the colored Other instrumentally, as unexplored terrain, a symbolic frontier that will be the fertile ground for their reconstruction of the masculine nowm, for asserting themselves as _______ desiring objects." (pg 310)
What is transgressive?
Enlightened Withness
What is closely watching media and critiquely interpreting it to learn about and challenge its representations?
Fill in: bell hook's essay "Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance" critiquely examines the ________ of marginalized cultures within popular culture
What is commodification?
Name of bell hooks essay
what is Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance?
Black Female Bodies
What is how Black female bodies are represented in the media?
Explanation for Lorraine Hansberry quote
What is uses this example to explore the complexities of cross culture relationships and the potential for genuine connection amidst systematic power imbalances?
Media narratives
What is hooks examines how media narratives are constructed for specific purposes and to maintain dominant strategies?
Fill in: Reinforcement of Dominance: These narratives uphold the ______ of white perspectives, suggesting that white characters are the "norm" and that Black characters exist primarily to serve their stories.
What is dominance?