Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movie

by bell hooks

Book Overview

Although it may not be the goal of every filmmaker, most people learn something when they watch movies. Movies make people think. Movies make people feel. Occasionally people have the power to transform lives. In her newest book, Reel to Real, Bell Hooks talks back to films she has watched as a way to engage the pedagogy of cinema--the way film teaches its audience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415918235
• ISBN13: 9780415918237
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Must-Read

bell hooks is as critical and analytical as ever. Of all bell hooks' books that I've read, this is the best. The synopsis above says it all. Now all you have to do is read it. Filmmakers, pop culturalists, and people who think will be in pig-heaven

bell hooks really gives good information in this one!

An excellent book that really gives you something to think about as she examines race, sex and class in America through the movies. I really enjoyed reading her feminist views, and her interviews with filmmakers Charles Burnett, Camille Billops, and AJ (Arthur Jafa).