A critical look at Kara Keeling’s first monograph The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (2007).
Ana Maria Sapountzi
Ana Maria Sapountzi is a PhD student at the Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews, where she works on her queer study of Laurence Olivier’s major Hollywood performances. She has a MLitt in Film Studies from the University of St Andrews and a BA(Hons) in Film and Screen Studies from Bath Spa University. Ana Maria has been a library assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, NY and has worked at the Andy Warhol Film Archives within the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, identity, performance, stardom, aesthetics and subversion. In her spare time, Ana Maria enjoys painting, reading, writing poetry, beachcombing and playing video games.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey