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The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life

The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life

Stallings, L. H.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora

Biographies GeneralAmerican Art - African American & BlackDirectors

ISBN10: 0253059011
ISBN13: 9780253059017
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Dec 7 2021
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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