Kathleen Collins : The Black Essai Film (Visionaries: the Work of Women Filmmakers)

Ramanathan, Geetha

Edinburgh University Press（2020/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 176 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474440691
• DDC分類 791.430233092

Full Description

A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) and Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins's films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world film traditions, and it highlights her contribution to each of these canons.
Exploring the philosophical aspects of Collins's films and placing her in a genealogy of African American auteurs, Geetha Ramanathan argues that Collins uses film to integrate diverse elements of African American culture, showing how the medium can transform the visual and become a site of convergence for ideas on philosophy, otherness, art, aesthetics and the craft of filmmaking.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.The New York Black Independents

2.The Black Essai Film

3.Ambiguities of Auteurship

4.The Magical Marvellous Modern

5.Sacred Doubles

6.Film Across Drama and Art

7.Black Feminist Culture and Black Masculinity

Afterword

List of Films

Bibliography