Kara Keeling

The Witch's Flight

The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an analysis of filmic representations of Black femininity, and the Black Femme in particular, this book highlights the ways "the cinematic" structures both racist and sexist portrayals, and their potential undoing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340133
• ISBN-10: 0822340135
• Artikelnr.: 22873178

Autorenporträt

Kara Keeling is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts and of African American Studies in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is a coeditor of James A. Snead’s Racist Traces and Other Writings: European Pedigrees/African Contagions.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Another Litany for Survival 1
1. The Image of Common Sense 11
2. In the Interval 27
3. “In Order to Move Forward”: Common-Sense Black Nationalism and Haile
Gerima’s Sankofa 45
4. “We’ll Just Have to Get Guns and Be Men”: The Cinematic Appearance of
Black Revolutionary Women 68
5. “A Black Belt in Bar Stool”: Blaxploitation, Surplus, and The L Word 95
6. “What’s Up With That? She Don’t Talk?”: Set It Off’s Black Lesbian
Butch-Femme 118
7. Reflections on the Black Femme’s Role in the [Re]production of Cinematic
Reality: The Case of Eve’s Bayou 138
Notes 159
Bibliography 195
Index 203