The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense

by Kara Keeling

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007CYD3VA
• ISBN13: 9780822340256
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"