The Witch's Flight
Subtitle: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (Perverse Modernities)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: October 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780822340256
Subjects: American studies; Film theory & criticism; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; African American Studies; Film & Television Studies; Gay & Lesbian Studies/Queer Th; African American women in motion pictures; Lesbianism in motion pictures; Lesbians in motion pictures
Description: Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anti-capitalist 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 formulations of raced and gendered subjectivities, nonetheless haunts those representations, threatening to disrupt them by making alternative social arrangements visible.