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1-What is the critique of The Color Purple and its filmmaker as discussed in your Text? Please give specific examples and incorporate your own critical analysis after watching the film. How did Black women respond to the film? The critique being given about the film and its filmmaker is that Black women are being overshadowed. Instead of following through with the actual novel the filmmaker creates a film from his perspective and switches the main character to be a man. As stated in the book, " Spielberg's view of the novel, that of race was not its predominant feature, raises the question of how he envisioned it...why the center of the story shifted from a female perspective to that of a male subjectivity, and why many characters' actions were acted out in a stereotypically racist manner" I've watched The Color Purple over the years many times and never noticed the over exaggerated stereotypes until now. Some of the things that I noticed while watching the film is how women are depicted as a sex object in a male dominated society, the character Celie plays the role much of slave from cleaning to cooking to just all around doing whatever Mister commands. A scene that stood out for me is when Celie spat in Albert's (Mister) father water when he was disapproving of his son's adulterous lifestyle and badmouthing Shug. This stood out for me because you will think Celie will agree with what Albert's father was saying but instead, she spit in his drink because she wasn't in favor for what he was saying about Shug. I thought this scene caused some confusion because although she is standing up for Shug it comes across as she agrees with Albert's ways and is ignoring all his wrongs. The way black women responded was that they saw that the film was constructed with mainstream values. Black women instead depicted good aspects of the film and try to relate them to their lives. Unfortunately, a film such as this should've been directed by a black woman for representation and create the film that was meant to empower and have female characters be the main star. Discuss Julie Dash and her Impact on Beyonce's Lemonade? Include in this discussion text, and online readings and any screenings you watched online where relevant. Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust is a film that was released in 1991 that was about a family in the Gullah community in South Carolina who were direct descendants of former African slaves and were able to adopt many of their African traditions. 25 years later, Dash's film inspired Beyonce's second visual album Lemonade that was released in 2016. Dash stated in an interview with Vanity Fair that Beyonce and Solange [her sister] "reimagine and redefine the diaspora". Because of Beyonce pulling inspiration from Daughters of the Dust in her Lemonade visual album, it helped speed the process up for Dash's film being brought back to be shown in theaters again. Summarize the "Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators" chapter by bell hooks. List Any specific examples from films or filmmakers we have watched or discussed in the class to illustrate the points made by the author. "Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators," by Bell Hooks, begins by discussing what "the gaze" is and why it terrified her as a kid. Hooks was taught in history class that enslaved Black people were punished by White slaveowners, men, women, and children for just looking, demonstrating that political racialized power relations deprived the enslaved people of their ability to look. Hooks was able to link this to Black parents instructing their children, "Look at me when I talk to you," as a kind of punishment. "The

oppositional gaze was a political statement and force of dominance that Black people valiantly fought. It was a rebellion desire to look, and have the look saying, "Not only will I stare. I want my look to alter reality."

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