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The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins
A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New LifeStudies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
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| Veröffentl.: | 07.12.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253059024 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 212 |
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<p><b>An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.</b></p>
<p>Kathleen Collins (1942–88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginning with her short film <i>The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy </i>and her feature film <i>Losing Ground</i>, 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. </p>
<p><i>The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life </i>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. <i>The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins </i>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.</p>
<p><i>The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins</i> definitively emphasizes the evolution of film and film studies that Collins makes possible for current and future generations of filmmakers.</p>
<p>Kathleen Collins (1942–88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginning with her short film <i>The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy </i>and her feature film <i>Losing Ground</i>, 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. </p>
<p><i>The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life </i>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. <i>The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins </i>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.</p>
<p><i>The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins</i> definitively emphasizes the evolution of film and film studies that Collins makes possible for current and future generations of filmmakers.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments<br>Introduction<br>Anterior Life<br>1. She Liked Writing<br>Love Life<br>2. Love, a Crisis of Possession<br>Life of the Mind<br>3. Fifth Dimension Cinema<br>Mocambo Life<br>4. Cinematic Marronage<br>Karkinos Life<br>5. Black Feminist Poethics of Cancer<br>Conclusion: Dreams No Longer Deferred<br>Notes<br>References<br>Index</p>
<p>L. H. Stallings<b> </b>is Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is author of <i>A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South</i>; <i>Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures</i>; and <i>Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture</i>.</p>
<p>An indispensable contribution to Black film studies, L. H. Stallings' incisive and revelatory book is a stunning meditation on the work, life, career, and legacy of Kathleen Collins. Brilliantly moving us beyond the limits of a traditional biography or auteur study, her concept of "afterlife-writing" explores the multifaced and formidable Collins in a compelling, nuanced, and cohesive fashion while simultaneously attending to the anteriority of Black film and visuality. With its speculative approach to Collins' work, Stalling's book models a way to engage the aesthetics, artistry, and afterlives of Black women who, like Collins, are enigmatic and emblematic visionaries of Black life and freedom.</p>
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