The Returns of "Cleopatra Jones"

The film "Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold" read by black queer viewers as black history, can be both a prologue to and precedent for examining representations of black women in the sense that the "same" object, the character Cleopatra Jones, represents what has always alre...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1999-10, Vol.25 (1), p.91-121
1. Verfasser:	Brody, Jennifer DeVere
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African American culture African American History African Americans Black American people Black people Blacks Casinos Culture Essays Exploitation Female homosexuality Females Feminism Feminist film theory Film criticism Film Study Gay rights Gays & lesbians Homosexuality Lesbian feminism Literary Genres Males Motion picture criticism Movies Personality Popular culture Portrayal Power Structure Queer culture Queer theory Realism U.S.A United States USA Women
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Zusammenfassung:	The film "Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold" read by black queer viewers as black history, can be both a prologue to and precedent for examining representations of black women in the sense that the "same" object, the character Cleopatra Jones, represents what has always already been there--the differently read black subject.
ISSN:	0097-9740 1545-6943
DOI:	10.1086/495415