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

Name: Witch's Flight The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
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ISBN: 9780822340256

ISBN-10: 0822340259

ISBN-13: 9780822340256

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kara Keeling, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe

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Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's notion of "the cinematic"--not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such as film and television but as a set of processes involved in the production and reproduction of social reality itself --Keeling describes how the cinematic structures racism, homophobia, and misogyny, and, in the process, denies viewers access to certain images and ways of knowing. She theorizes the black femme as a figure who, even when not explicitly represented within hegemonic cinematic…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



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