Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film
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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.
ISBN
978-1474440684
Publication Date
4-3-2020
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
City
Edinburgh
Disciplines
Africana Studies | Film and Media Studies
Recommended Citation
Ramanathan, Geetha, "Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film" (2020). College of Arts & Humanities Faculty Books. 23.
https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/cahfaculty_books/23