Kathleen Collins: : the black essai film / / Geetha Ramanathan.

• Superior document: Visionaries: thinking through female filmakers
• VerfasserIn: Ramanathan, Geetha,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, [2020]
• Year of Publication: 2019; 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Visionaries (Edinburgh University Press)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 168 pages) :; illustrations (colour); digital file(s).

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

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1. The New York black independents -- 2. The black essai film -- 3. Ambiguities of auteurship -- 4. The magical marvelous modern -- 5. Sacred doubles -- 6. Film across drama and art -- 7. Black feminist culture and black masculinity -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index