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The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense - Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Kara Keeling
The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense - Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
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. The author finds hidden within the histories and logics generated by US-based struggles against racism, sexism, and homophobia, the Black femme's invisible, affective labour.
240 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 5, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780822340256 |
Publishers | Duke University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Dimensions | 228 × 156 × 20 mm · 332 g |