Transcript Outside In Inside Out By: Trinh Minh-Ha

Outside In Inside Out
By: Trinh Minh-Ha
By: Stephanie Welcher and Edited
By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart
Trinh T. Minh-Ha
 Where was she
 Professions Include:
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 Awards and Grants Include:
American Film Institute,
California Arts Council, and
Guggenheim foundation
 Is currently a professor of
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 Some of her areas of interest
include:
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http://womensstudies.berkeley
.edu/trinh.html
Key Concepts
 Native’s Point of View: _____________
 Inappropriate Other:
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If you say to an Atheist: How faithful to the words of God are
yours? ___________________________________
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 “An objective constantly claimed by those who seek to reveal
one society to another is to grasp the native’s point of view
and to realize His vision of His world” (65)
 To be able to see things from the native’s view
Shows an __________________
This point of view also lays at the heart of the discussion on reality
and its relationship to beauty and truth
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Zora Neale Hurston wrote:
How amazed she was by the Anglo-Saxon’s
lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions
of blacks, and more generally speaking, of any nonAnglo-Saxon peoples” (Minh-Ha 66).
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Discussion Question
 Do you agree or disagree with this quote by Zora Neale
Hurston? Why or why not?
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 In order to make a good film:
It is extremely important to show
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For example:
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 What does cultural film making imply?
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Discussion Question
Minh-ha says: “an insider can speak with authority about his/her
own culture and s/he is referred to as a source of authority in the
matter, not as a filmmaker necessarily, but as an insider”
 What do you think about this? What does she mean by
this?
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 “Where is the dividing line between the outsider and the
insider stop and How should it be defined?” (73)
By:
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 The minute the Insider steps out she can no longer be
considered a mere insider
Discussion Question
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What do you think the dividing line between the insider
and the outsider is? How do you think this relates to
dance? Do we only dance within our own cultures?
Work Cited
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Minh-ha, Trinh. When the Moon Waxes Red.
New
York: Routledge, 1991.
Women Make Movies, Inc. Trinh T Minh-Ha. 28
March 2005. http://www.wmm.com/catalog/_makers/fm.htm
University of California Berkeley Women’s
Studies.
Trinh Minh-Ha Professor. 28 March
2005.
http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/trinh.htm
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Fox. Fox Searchlight Pictures Gurinder Chadha. 2005.
28 March 2005.
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/filmmakers/chadha/