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

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 fil...

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Superior document:Visionaries: thinking through female filmakers
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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).
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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