Paris Is Burning (film)
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Paris Is Burning is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed over a period of seven years from the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and
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Jennie Livingston, director of Paris Is Burning
Bell hooks
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Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic; she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentu
Paris Is Burning (film)
…holding real powerlessness at bay." Yet the film was not without detractors even after its initial release. Writing for Z Magazine, feminist writer bell hooks criticized the film for depicting the ritual of the balls as a spectacle to "pleasure" white spectators. Other authors such as Judith Butler and Phillip…
hooks in October 2014
bell hooks in 2009
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