{"id":960,"date":"2022-12-19T00:44:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/?p=960"},"modified":"2022-12-19T00:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:44:26","slug":"reading-journal-prompt-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/reading-journal-prompt-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Journal – Prompt 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TEXT CHOSEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have chosen to write about bell hook\u2019s piece \u201cIs Paris Burning?\u201d and how Livingston\u2019s film Paris is Burning, displays a marginalized community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DESCRIPTION\/SUMMARY:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The text is meaningful to me because it is from a black feminist perspective. Furthermore, hooks actively advocates for a more critical and engaged form of spectatorship, in which the audience is active and engaged in the media they consume, and is able to think critically about the content they are viewing. As a black aspiring filmmaker, it\u2019s important to me that viewers and filmmakers both actively question harmful stereotypes and ideologies in cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE SPECULATION:<\/strong>
The intended audience I am imagining for my close-reading essay is white filmmakers, enthusiasts, or casual filmmakers. As consumers with power, it is important to be aware of representations that create a “spectacle” that distracts from the underlying issues and allows dominant groups to maintain their dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FORMAL AND GENERIC CONVENTIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two generically similar texts to this piece are Manthia Diawara\u2019s piece \u201cBlack Spectatorship and Problems of Identification and Resistance\u201d and Laura Mulvey\u2019s Visual Pleasure in Cinema\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diawara\u2019s work challenges the idea that all black viewers challenge depictions of themselves in typical Hollywood narratives. Diawara also proposes that some white spectators resist the racial representation of themselves. Diawara further discusses the issues with color-blind gender analysis with spectatorship in cinema. Mulvey\u2019s piece describes the paradox of phallocentrism and its manifestation through film. Just like society, filmmaking centers on men and their pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONTENT:<\/strong>
I intend to talk about my object in relation to a standard film\/text analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COURSE THEMATICS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that my reading intersects\/overlaps with class in these ways: racialization & intersectionality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QUESTIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am struggling with figuring out what aspects of hooks\u2019 argument to focus on and how to effectively organize my argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources:
Diawara, Manthia. \u201c[PDF] Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification and Resistance: Semantic Scholar.\u201d Screen, 1 Jan. 1988, https:\/\/www.semanticscholar.org\/paper\/Black-Spectatorship%3A-Problems-of-Identification-and-Diawara\/4a6c1c1ab87378ea6075adb5e68d2a330c4b987a.
Mulvey, Laura. \u201cVISUAL PLEASURE IN NARRATIVE CINEMA.\u201d Luxonline, Screen, Vol. 16, 1975, https:\/\/www.luxonline.org.uk\/articles\/visual_pleasure_and_narrative_cinema(printversion).html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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