Theory and Methods ARH 411

Difference: "A Special Third World Women Issue" -by: Trinh T. Minh-ha From Trinh T. Minh-ha's Naked Spaces - Living Is Round This week we read Difference: “A Special Third World Women Issue” by Trinh T. Minh-ha in the reading she discusses the struggles for equal rights for women and how it expands to those women of color as well, and at points women of color experience extreme resistance due to stereotypes and how these stereotypes may affect the approach some women have on fighting for equal right, and she even talks about the ideas of inclusion. When thinking about the idea of equal opportunity it is meant to be seen as something good, but sometimes these opportunities are helping to continue the cycle of oppression by using terms within a type of guideline that are made to include a diverse amount of people by meeting certain criterias to fall under that inclusive title, causes problem by making these companies seem as though they are an open minded and an inclusive ...

AUTHORSHIP      The creation of arts comes in many forms, and with those arts come their creators, us as a society view these arts and use the authors or creators to understand their pieces. We can become very invested in the creator's life. Our collective obsession with biographies and celebrities hinder the interpretation of art by getting the viewer invested in the personal life of the creator of an art piece or text. This affects the way we interpret art because we start to learn the history behind the creator and use their history to try and understand an art piece. This obsession we create is simply our fascination with the artist; we want to understand them possibly even try to be them by learning their life stories we can understand the creator better and why they make something if we generally have an idea of who that creator is as a person, what struggles they faced and how they lived their lives. This would help us as viewers create interpretations of the art s...

The Black Female Spectators Written by-Aurianna A      To start off Bell Hooks writes about the expectations of film and tackles the concept of the oppositional gaze. Specifically through the lens of black woman. Bell hooks talks about black viewership of film by explaining how films can play on the stereo-types of black people and even go as far as to target black women in films. In these films they use black woman as a negative prop within the film and so that the audience can relate with the film's black male character and laugh at the black woman. The filmmakers do this by creating the black woman as a nagging, mean character that doesn’t give support to the male but instead appears to be an annoying character, Hooks states; “She was even then backdrop, foil. She was bitch-nag. She was there to soften images of black men, to make them seem vulnerable, easygoing, funny, and unthreatening to a white audience. She was there as man in drag, as castrating bitch, as someone...