Kathleen Collins
The Black Essai Film
Seiten
2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4068-4 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4068-4 (ISBN)
A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with 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.
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.
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.
Geetha Ramanathan is Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University where she teaches Comparative Literature, film and Women’s Studies (including Feminist Film and African American Film). Her interests include modernist, feminist and third world literature.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.04.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers |
| Zusatzinfo | 14 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-4068-1 / 1474440681 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-4068-4 / 9781474440684 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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