Formation- THEORISTS

Question 1

Postmodernism- Jean Baudrillard

Answer 1

• Video offers interesting challenges to Baudrillard’s ideas that in the modern age of simulacra we are immersed in a world of images which no longer refer to anything ‘real’.

Question 2

Feminist Theory- Bell Hooks

Answer 2

• Hooks could be used to stimuli and explore whether the video offers a strong message about gender or instead feeds into the oppression of women in a patriarchal society.
• Hooks position that feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression can be used to ask whether the video is part of that struggle.

Question 3

Post-colonialism and Ethnicity- Paul Gilroy

Answer 3

• Gilroy’s theme of double consciousness involves Black Atlantic Striving to be both European and Black through their relationship to the land of their birth and ethnic constituency being transformed.
• The whole idea about subverting expectations and placing a black women in a position of power and domination