Witch''s Flight - The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense

Informationen zum Autor Kara Keeling Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anti-capitalist Black liberation movements based in the United States. The author finds hidden within the histories and logics generated by US-based struggles against racism! sexism! and homophobia! the Black femme's invisible! affective labour. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Kara Keeling
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2007
• EAN: 9780822340133
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4013-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 241 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography