Looking for the Other

<p>What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? <strong><em>Looking for the Other</em></strong> responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel.<br><br> Looking relations are determined by history tradition myth; by national identity power hierarchies politics economics geographical and other environment. Travel implicitly involves looking at and looking relations with peoples different from oneself. Featured films include <em>Birth of a Nation The Cat People Home of the</em><em>Brave Black Narcissus Chocolat</em> and <em>Warrior Marks</em>. Featured filmmakers include D.W.Griffith Jacques Tourneur Michael Powell Julie Dash Pratibha Parmar Trinh T. Min-ha and Claire Denis.</p>