![]() ![]() So ideally it would seem like a great thing to see movies about black women made by black women, which we are watching in this class. Part of the premise of this class is that you get a different value out of watching films made by the people they are portraying. ![]() In this class we’re watching movies made largely by black filmmakers for black audiences. ![]() ![]() Is the primary failing of Lee’s movie that Nola has little agency? If Lee fleshed out her character or adjusted her motivations, would that rectify the problems with his film? Or would it really only be better for women to make movies about women? Is Spike Lee somehow being more authentic by giving primary voice to the men in his film? Is the point of the film supposed to be how black men perceive Nola/women? Is it right of him not to presume to speak for Nola? Since I haven’t yet watched the film I can’t form an opinion on hooks’ reading of it, but I think that question is worth addressing by itself. One question that bell hooks asks in this essay is, “Can a man really tell a woman’s story?” She discusses the shortcomings in “She’s Gotta Have It,” including that Nola’s characters is two-dimensional compared to the men, who have interests other than sex, that Nola’s sexual activities are more a reward bestowed upon a deserving man than sexually satisfying for Nola herself, and that Nola’s story is controlled primarily by men’s perception of her, but she never actually answers this question in this essay. ![]()
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