Kathleen Collins

The Black Essai Film (livre en anglais)

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de Geetha Ramanathan

Type: Etudes
Sujet: Réalisateur > Kathleen Collins
Mots Clés: Kathleen Collins, réalisateur, femme
Année d'édition: 2020
Editeur: Edinburgh University Press
Collection: Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers
Langue: anglais

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Relié • 176 pages
14 x 21,5 cm

ISBN

978-1-4744-4068-4

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Explores the New York Black Independent Film movement in the context of Kathleen Collins’s work as a philosopher filmmaker
• Analyses Collins's films as the site of a convergence of ideas on philosophy, otherness, art, aesthetics and the craft of filmmaking
• Provides contexts for Collins's use of African American folklore and oral culture in her films
• Examines Collins's influence on African American woman filmmakers

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.

À propos de l'auteur :
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.

Revue de Presse :
In her fascinating and important book, Geetha Ramanathan gives the films of Kathleen Collins the astute and attentive analysis they deserve, usefully placing them in the context of Collins’ wide aesthetic and philosophical interests as well as her plays and stories. This welcome study makes a crucial contribution to Collins’ recent return to both film history and African American culture.
– Professor Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck University of London

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