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The "oppositional gaze", first coined by feminist, scholar and social activist bell hooks in her 1992 essay collection Black Looks: Race and Representation, is a type of looking relation that involves the political rebellion and resistance against the repression of a black person's right to look. As hooks states, white slave-owners would punish their slaves regularly simply for looking at them. The oppositional gaze is a tool that black people use to disrupt the power dynamic that white cinema uses to perpetuate the Othering of blackness in media. The oppositional gaze works by creating a representation of blackness in media by developing independent black cinema. It works as black media by black creators for specifically black audiences. hooks' essay is a work of feminist film theory that

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  • The "oppositional gaze", first coined by feminist, scholar and social activist bell hooks in her 1992 essay collection Black Looks: Race and Representation, is a type of looking relation that involves the political rebellion and resistance against the repression of a black person's right to look. As hooks states, white slave-owners would punish their slaves regularly simply for looking at them. The oppositional gaze is a tool that black people use to disrupt the power dynamic that white cinema uses to perpetuate the Othering of blackness in media. The oppositional gaze works by creating a representation of blackness in media by developing independent black cinema. It works as black media by black creators for specifically black audiences. hooks' essay is a work of feminist film theory that (en)
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  • The "oppositional gaze", first coined by feminist, scholar and social activist bell hooks in her 1992 essay collection Black Looks: Race and Representation, is a type of looking relation that involves the political rebellion and resistance against the repression of a black person's right to look. As hooks states, white slave-owners would punish their slaves regularly simply for looking at them. The oppositional gaze is a tool that black people use to disrupt the power dynamic that white cinema uses to perpetuate the Othering of blackness in media. The oppositional gaze works by creating a representation of blackness in media by developing independent black cinema. It works as black media by black creators for specifically black audiences. hooks' essay is a work of feminist film theory that criticizes both the male gaze through Michel Foucault's "relations of power" and the prevalence of white feminism in feminist film theory. The oppositional gaze encompasses modes of looking that employ reflexive gazes such as: * The shared gaze * The repressed gaze * The phallocentric gaze * The black male gaze * The interrogating gaze (en)
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