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Description

1. viii, 201 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker. Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginning with her short film The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy and her feature film Losing Ground, Collins explored new dimensions of what narrative film could and should do. However, her achievements in filmmaking were part of a greater life project. In this critically imaginative study of Collins, L.H. Stallings narrates how Collins, as a Black woman writer and filmmaker, sought to change the definition of life and living. The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life explores the global significance and futurist implications of filmmaker and writer Kathleen Collins. In addition to her two films, Stallings examines the broad and expansive and varying forms of writing produced by Collins during her short life time. The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins showcases how Collins used filmmaking, writing, and teaching to assert herself as a poly-creative dedicated to asking and answering difficult philosophical questions about human being and living. Interrogating the ideological foundation of life-writing and cinematic life-writing as they intersect with race and gender, Stallings intervenes on the delimited concepts of life and Black being that impeded wider access, distribution, and production of Collins's personal, cinematic, literary, and theatrical works. The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins definitively emphasizes the evolution of film and film studies that Collins makes possible for current and future generations of filmmakers"--

Series statement

1. Studies in the cinema of the Black diaspora

Uniform title

1. Studies in the cinema of the Black diaspora.

Subject

1. Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988
2. African American women motion picture producers and directors > Biography
3. African American women screenwriters > Biography
4. Biographical films > United States > History and criticism
5. African Americans in motion pictures
6. Race in motion pictures
7. African American women motion picture producers and directors
8. African American women screenwriters
9. Biographical films
10. United States

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction. Anterior life -- She liked writing : love life -- Love, a crisis of possession : life of the mind -- Fifth dimension cinema : Mocambo life -- Cinematic marronage : Karkinos life -- Black feminist poethics of cancer -- Conclusion: Dreams no longer deferred.

Call number

1. Sc E 22-44

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Horton-Stallings, LaMonda, author.

Title

1. The afterlives of Kathleen Collins : a Black woman filmmaker's search for new life / L.H. Stallings.

Publisher

1. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Studies in the cinema of the Black diaspora
2. Studies in the cinema of the Black diaspora.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2021031445

ISBN

1. 9780253059017 hardcover
2. 0253059011 hardcover
3. 9780253059031 paperback
4. 0253059038 paperback

Research call number

1. Sc E 22-44