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Black power on film.(The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense)(Book review)
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May 1, 2008
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The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
by Kara Keeling
Duke University Press. 209 pages, $22.95
AT FIRST GLANCE, this scholarly analysis of the impact of cinema and television on "common sense" (commonly accepted but not necessarily sensible) images of "blacks" and "women" within a racist, sexist, homophobic, postcolonial, capitalist culture looks like a summary of earlier theories. Keeling draws especially on Gilles Deleuze's conception of "the cinematic" as a means of creating--not simply reflecting--social reality. Along the way, she refers to the theories of Franz Fanon, Angela Davis, Karl Marx, and Antonio Gramsci. ...
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