The Witch's Flight

2007-11-05 Performing Arts

Author : Kara Keeling
Release : 2007-11-05
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 256/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Witch's Flight written by Kara Keeling. This book was released on 2007-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThrough 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./div

The Witch's Flight

2007-11-05 Performing Arts

Author : Kara Keeling
Release : 2007-11-05
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 140/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Witch's Flight written by Kara Keeling. This book was released on 2007-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 racism, homophobia, and misogyny, and, in the process, denies viewers access to certain images and ways of knowing. She theorizes the black femme as a figure who, even when not explicitly represented within hegemonic cinematic formulations of raced and gendered subjectivities, nonetheless haunts those representations, threatening to disrupt them by making alternative social arrangements visible. Keeling draws on the thought of Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and others in addition to Deleuze. She pursues the elusive figure of the black femme through Haile Gerima’s film Sankofa, images of women in the Black Panther Party, Pam Grier’s roles in the blaxploitation films of the early 1970s, F. Gary Gray’s film Set It Off, and Kasi Lemmons’s Eve’s Bayou.

Flight of a Witch

2015-12-22 Fiction

Author : Ellis Peters
Release : 2015-12-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 086/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Flight of a Witch written by Ellis Peters. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Welsh teenager in this “deeply satisfying” mystery by the author of the Brother Cadfael series (Publishers Weekly). Annet Beck is hauntingly beautiful, which worries her parents so much that they guard her as closely as a prisoner . . . until the rainy Thursday in October when she disappears. Annet is last seen vanishing over the crest of the eerie Hallowmount, a hill said to be the abode of witches. Five days later, she mysteriously reappears, claiming that she was only gone for two hours. Enchanted by her beauty, Annet’s parents’ lodger Tom Kenyon is determined to find the explanation for her disappearance: Could it be deceit, amnesia, or witchcraft? Tom’s amateur investigations lead to nowhere until Detective Inspector George Felse finds cause to connect those missing five days with his inquiry into a death. Flight of a Witch is the 3rd book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Flight of Vengeance

2014-08-05 Fiction

Author : P. M. Griffin
Release : 2014-08-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Flight of Vengeance written by P. M. Griffin. This book was released on 2014-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas—Mary H. Schaub’s “Exile,” in which a disfigured witch struggles to regain her powers, and P. M. Griffin’s “Falcon Hope,” in which two unlikely allies try to save their peoples from extinction—are accompanied by “The Chronicler,” by series creator Andre Norton.

The Witches

2015-10-27 History

Author : Stacy Schiff
Release : 2015-10-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 611/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Witches written by Stacy Schiff. This book was released on 2015-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

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