Outside In Inside Out By: Trinh Minh-Ha

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Outside In Inside OutBy Trinh Minh-Ha

• By Stephanie Welcher and Edited By Laura Pratt
  and Dr. Kay Picart

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Trinh T. Minh-Ha

• Where was she
• Professions Include ___________________________
• Awards and Grants Include American Film
  Institute, California Arts Council, and
  Guggenheim foundation
• Is currently a professor of ______________________
  ______________________
• Some of her areas of interest include
• _________________
• _________________
• _________________
• _________________
• _________________

http//womensstudies.berkeley.edu/trinh.html
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Key Concepts

• Natives Point of View _____________
• Inappropriate Other _____________________________
  ________
• If you say to an Atheist How faithful to the
  words of God are yours? _________________________
  __________

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Outside In Inside Out

• An objective constantly claimed by those who
  seek to reveal one society to another is to grasp
  the natives point of view and to realize His
  vision of His world (65)
• To be able to see things from the natives 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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Outside In Inside Out

• Zora Neale Hurston wrote
• How amazed she was by the Anglo-Saxons lack of
  curiosity about the internal lives and emotions
  of blacks, and more generally speaking, of any
  non-Anglo-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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Outside In Inside Out

• In order to make a good film
• It is extremely important to show
  _________________________________________
• For example
• _______________
• _______________
• 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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Outside In Inside Out

• Where is the dividing line between the outsider
  and the insider stop and How should it be
  defined? (73)
• By
• _______
• _______
• _______
• The minute the Insider steps out she can no
  longer be considered a mere insider

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Discussion Question

• 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?

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Work Cited

• 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/f
  m.htm
• University of California Berkeley Womens
  Studies. Trinh Minh-Ha Professor. 28 March
  2005. http//womensstudies.berkeley.edu/trinh.ht
  m
• Fox. Fox Searchlight Pictures Gurinder Chadha.
  2005. 28 March 2005. http//www.foxsearchlight.c
  om/filmmakers/chadha/