the cinematic, the black femme, and the image of common sense
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Keeling, Kara
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, zwarte vrouwen, films, etniciteit, racisme, heteroseksisme, misogynie, lesbianisme, bevrijdingsbeweging, filosofie, theorieën, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Keeling describes how images of black women have affected racism, homophobia and misogyny in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s in the United States. She explores various images, including those from: Haile Gerima’s film Sankof: images of women in the Black Panther Party: Pam Grier's roles in the blaxploitation films of the '70s: the 'bulldagger' and butch: the lipstick lesbians of the L Word: the Black women of F.Gary Gray’s 'Set It Off': Kase Lemmon's 'Eve's Bayou'.