Kathleen Collins

The Black Essai Film

By: Geetha Ramanathan

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Hardcover | 3 March 2020

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145 Pages

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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.

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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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