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Without a doubt, "Black Meme:
A History of the Images that Make Us" by Legacy Russell.
She also cites bell hooks "Is Paris Burning?" from Black Looks, but her book focuses on the virality of Black images (starting with lynching post cards) and how these images shape digital visual culture.
Legacy Russell cites many people in this chapter of Black Meme, including the essay "Is Paris Burning?" by bell hooks which is included in Black Looks (1992).
🧵 by @walaal.blacksky.app shares hooks' incisive and insightful critique of the film and the positionality and privilege of the director.
I shared your original thread in mine as well.
Legacy Russell cites hooks in her treatment of "Paris is Burning" and brings it into the digital age.
She discusses how digitized clips of the film continue to be circulated and monetized online. How Livingston still benefits, and they get nothing.
See thread.
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Yes, it's my favorite too (esp. Eating the Other and the chapter on Black Indians), but Ain't I a Woman is a close #2 for me.
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when ever i see ppl (especially our skinfolk) praise Paris is Burning, i need to share passages from ancestor bell hooks' critique.
"Jenni Livingston approaches her subject matter as an outsider looking in. Since her presence as white woman/lesbian filmmaker is "absent" from Paris is Burning it is
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when ever i see ppl (especially our skinfolk) praise Paris is Burning, i need to share passages from ancestor bell hooks' critique.
"Jenni Livingston approaches her subject matter as an outsider looking in. Since her presence as white woman/lesbian filmmaker is "absent" from Paris is Burning it is
*** Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism ***Through imagery, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our underst...
Legacy Russell cites many people in this chapter of Black Meme, including the essay "Is Paris Burning?" by bell hooks which is included in Black Looks (1992).
🧵 by @walaal.blacksky.app shares hooks' incisive and insightful critique of the film and the positionality and privilege of the director.
when ever i see ppl (especially our skinfolk) praise Paris is Burning, i need to share passages from ancestor bell hooks' critique.
"Jenni Livingston approaches her subject matter as an outsider looking in. Since her presence as white woman/lesbian filmmaker is "absent" from Paris is Burning it is
Exact same. Ain’t I a Woman was the first book I read by her, and it was life changing. Eating the Other was also my fav essay in that book.
