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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "There is a special alchemy at work in this wonderful project that transforms painstaking research and original theoretical insight into a superb understanding of the cinematic's deeply cathected relation to blackness, gender, and sexuality. Kara Keeling watches, reads, and stitches together a tapestry that teaches us how to re-read and re-think what we thought we knew already of visual culture, of the peculiarities of our social order's self-imagination, and of the survival of black femme desire."--Wahneema Lubiano, editor of "The House that Race Built" 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...
