Findings from books

Nelmes, Jill (1999), "An Introduction to Film Studies", Routledge, U.K.

Black Feminist theory has found it problematic to apply what could be termed white, bourgeois film theory to an ethnic group which is so noticeably under-represented in film. A movie called "The Colour Purple" contained a number of stereotypical images of black people and their culture, it was filmed by a white male director named Steven Speilberg. Jacqueline Bobo conducted group interviews to analyse the responses of the black people from the film. Many of the black women said that they could relate to the movie - this was the audiences response of the text. This is important for me as this response of the audience can be compared to the audiences response to the text i am studying as well as others.