The Witch's Flight

by Keeling, Kara

• ISBN13: 9780822340133
• ISBN10: 0822340135
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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"

Author Biography

Kara Keeling is an assistant professor of critical studies in the School of Cinematic Arts and of African American studies in the American studies and ethnicity department at the University of Southern California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Another Litany for Survival

The Image of Common Sense

In the Interval

"In Order to Move Forward": Common-Sense Black Nationalism and Haile Gerima's Sankofa

"We'll Just Have to Get Guns and Be Men": The Cinematic Appearance of Black Revolutionary Women

"A Black Belt in Bar Stool": Blaxploitation, Surplus, and The L Word

"What's Up With That? She Don't Talk?": Set It Off's Black Lesbian Butch-Femme

Reflections on the Black Femme's Role in the [Re]production of Cinematic Reality: The Case of Eve's Bayou

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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