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…showed last 75 words of 1311 total…black filmmakers show the complexity of black identity. This film challenged the norms of movie making and makes the audience look differently at black women. Hooks states that this film created a new identity. Hooks believes that these films create a new way to think about black female spectatorship and the roles they play in media. She states "it is this critical practice that enable production of feminist film theory that theorized black female spectatorship."