num_pages: 224
description: Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way. In interviews with black women, she examines their specific responses as spectators and consumers of films and novels, including Waiting to Exhale, The Color Purple, and Daughters of the Dust .
language: English
title: Black Women as Cultural Readers
titlecomplete: Black Women as Cultural Readers
ratings_count: 18
series: Film and Culture Series
publisher: Columbia University Press