Kathleen Collins : the black essai film / / Geetha Ramanathan

• Autore: Ramanathan Geetha
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh University Press, 2019; Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2020]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 168 pages) : illustrations (colour); digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 791.430233092
• Soggetto topico: African Americans in motion pictures; Motion pictures - Production and direction
• Soggetto non controllato: Performing Arts; Film; Direction & Production
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. The New York black independents -- 2. The black essai film -- 3. Ambiguities of auteurship -- 4. The magical marvelous modern -- 5. Sacred doubles -- 6. Film across drama and art -- 7. Black feminist culture and black masculinity -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Kathleen Collins
• ISBN: 1-4744-4070-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910377436203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Visionaries (Edinburgh University Press)