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

Kara Keeling

Through an analysis of filmic representations of Black femininity, and the Black Femme in particular, this book highlights the ways "the cinematic" structures both racist and sexist portrayals, and their potential undoing.

GenresLesbianism in motion pictures

209 pages

English edition · First published 2007 by Duke University Press · ISBN 9780822340256

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