University of California Irvine Race on Screen Discussion Questions

Texts:

• Manthia Diawara, “Black Spectatorship”
• Richard Dyer, “White”

Questions:

1. What are the authors’ main arguments?
2. What is the spectator that the authors are discussing / imagining?
3. What common sense are the authors dialoguing with (or against)?
4. How do the texts dialogue with one another?
5. How do they change your own view of film and media?
6. What are the implications of Diawara’s and Dyer’s theories?
7. Your comment on something that stood out to you, or that you’d like more explanation on.