The Witch's Flight

"There is a special alchemy at work in this wonderful project that transforms painstaking research and original theoretical insight into a superb understanding of the cinematic's deeply cathected relation to blackness, gender, and sexuality. Kara Keeling watches, reads, and stitches together a tapestry that teaches us how to re-read and re-think what we thought we knew already of visual culture, of the peculiarities of our social order's self-imagination, and of the survival of black femme desire."--Wahneema Lubiano, editor of "The House that Race Built"

Kara Keeling is an assistant professor of critical studies in the School of Cinematic Arts and of African American studies in the American studies and ethnicity department at the University of Southern California.