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The witch's flight : the cinematic, the Black femme, and the image of common sense / Kara Keeling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keeling, Kara, 1971-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Perverse modernities.
- Perverse modernities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Sex in motion pictures.
- Race in motion pictures.
- Queer theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed March 4, 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9786613023285
- 9780822390145
- 9780822340256
- 0822340259
- 9781283023283
- 1283023288
- OCLC:
- 271178279
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