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Intradigetic looks
- - The characters in the film are looking and analyzing each other withing the film
- *Looking and Looking Relationships
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Extradigetic Looks
- We, as spectators, are looking at the film and analyzing ourselves
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Critical Gaze
Looking with criticism
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Oppositional Gaze
Looking with resistance
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Phallocentric Gaze
Women are reduced to their sexuality
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Josephine Baker
- - Political Activist
- - Very successful partially nude dancer/actress
- - Protested sometimes for dancing nude, and other times for being black
- - Always racialized, sexualized, and politicized
- Films: Zou Zou, Princess Tam Tam
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Paul Robeson
- - Political Icon
- - Lawyer turned Actor
- - Protested his own film
- - Became politically active
- > urged blacks to fight against KK and to not fight in WWII
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Oscar Micheaux
- - Important black filmmaker
- - Wrote a few novels, started a publishing comapny
- - Wanted to turn one of his books into a movie but was denied b/c he was black
- - Began Micheaux Book and Film Company
- --2 periods of filmmaking
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Withing Our Gates: A Story of the Negro
- 1920
- Oscar Micheaux
- - seen as a response to Birth of a Nation
- - recreated lynching on screen
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