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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780735003321

Autore

Keeling Kara <1971->

Titolo

The witch's flight [[electronic resource] ] : the cinematic, the Black femme, and the image of common sense / / Kara Keeling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8223-4025-9

1-283-02328-8

9786613023285

9780822390145

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Perverse modernities

Disciplina

791.43/6526643

Soggetti

Sex role in motion pictures

Sex in motion pictures

Race in motion pictures

Queer theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.