The Witch's Flight

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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.

subjects: Lesbians in motion pictures,  African American women in motion pictures,  Lesbianism in motion pictures,  Sex in motion pictures,  Race in motion pictures,  Sex role in motion pictures,  Queer theory,  Film & Video,  Butch and femme (Lesbian culture) in motion pictures,  ART,  Reference,  PERFORMING ARTS,  PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism,  African americans in motion pictures,  African american women