In Reel to Real, hooks assembles several already published essays together with more recent work.
For as she optimistically maintains, "Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world," and film criticism is important because it "forces people to see differently." hooks attempts to intervene in mainstream cinema in a way that "challenges and changes the structures of white supremacist domination" and this collection of her writings highlights the one-dimensionality of black characters, the ghettoization of black filmmakers, and the marginality of black cinema in historical and critical studies of film. But since her students claim to learn most of what they know about race, sex, and class from the movies, writing film criticism is something hooks feels she simply can't afford not to do. Bell hooks is the first to admit that film criticism written by people who aren't film scholars is usually viewed with suspicion.
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