![]() ![]() The ""mock feminism"" of Waiting to Exhale (""an utterly boring show"") is exposed as hooks examines differences between the book and the movie. Quentin Tarantino-a filmmaker ""not afraid to publicly pimp his wares""-is taken to task for ingesting superficial aspects of black culture and spitting out the rest. A reading of reviews of Exotica shows that only the strip-joint portions of the movie were considered worthy of commentary. ![]() This mix of theory, reality, popular art and popular criticism (reviews and public reaction play a large part in her discussions) is effective in forcing a rethinking of the films in question. ![]() Hooks's essays on film are not film criticism: they are criticism of culture as viewed through the prism of film. ![]()
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