02865nam 22006854a 450 991078073500332120081112111857.00-8223-4025-91-283-02328-89786613023285978082239014510.1515/9780822390145(CKB)2480000000000394(EBL)1170541(OCoLC)271178279(SSID)ssj0000394860(PQKBManifestationID)11263075(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394860(PQKBWorkID)10388202(PQKB)11504339(MiAaPQ)EBC1170541(OCoLC)1141509340(MdBmJHUP)muse81043271178279(DE-B1597)554614(DE-B1597)9780822390145(OCoLC)1224278101(EXLCZ)99248000000000039420081112d2008 uy 0engurbn#---uuuuutxtrdacontentstirdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe witch's flight[electronic resource] the cinematic, the Black femme, and the image of common sense /Kara KeelingDurham Duke University Press20071 online resource (xii, 209 pages) illustrationsPerverse modernitiesDescription based upon print version of record.Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index.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.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.Perverse modernities.Sex role in motion picturesSex in motion picturesRace in motion picturesQueer theorySex role in motion pictures.Sex in motion pictures.Race in motion pictures.Queer theory.791.43/6526643Keeling Kara1971-1484820NcDNcDBOOK9910780735003321The witch's flight3703620UNINA