Reel to Real Quotes

“I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.”
― bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

“Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.”
― bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

“..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.”
― bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white women to get into the workforce because of the world war, what did they start doing? They started having a lot of commercials, a lot of movies, a lot of things that were redoing the female image, saying, “Hey, you can work for the war, but you can still be feminine.” So what we see is that the mass media, film, TV, all of these things, are powerful vehicles for maintaining the kinds of systems of domination we live under, imperialism, racism, sexism etc. Often there’s a denial of this and art is presented as politically neutral, as though it is not shaped by a reality of domination.
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― bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

“..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.
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― bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies