The Witchs Flight The Cinematic The Black Femme And The Image Of Common Sense Kara Keeling by Kara Keeling 9780822340133, 0822340135 instant download after payment.

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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 formulations of raced
and gendered subjectivities, nonetheless haunts those representations,
threatening to disrupt them by making alternative social arrangements
visible.

Keeling draws on the thought of Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis,
Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and others in addition to Deleuze. She
pursues the elusive figure of the black femme through Haile Gerima’s
film Sankofa, images of women in the Black Panther Party, Pam
Grier’s roles in the blaxploitation films of the early 1970s, F. Gary
Gray’s film Set It Off, and Kasi Lemmons’s Eve’s Bayou.

Bio:Kara Keeling is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the School of
Cinematic Arts and of African American Studies in the Department of
American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
She is a coeditor of James A. Snead’s Racist Traces and Other Writings: European Pedigrees/African Contagions.