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Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film (Visionaries Thinking Through Female Filmmakers) - Softcover

Ramanathan, Geetha

 
9781474440691: Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film (Visionaries Thinking Through Female Filmmakers)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 147444069X ISBN 13: 9781474440691
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

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Explores the New York Black Independent Film movement in the context of Kathleen Collins's work as a philosopher filmmaker

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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.



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.

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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.Geetha Ramanathan is Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University, where she teaches and writes on comparative literature, film and women’s studies, including feminist and African American film. Her most recent book is The Female in German Modernisms: The Visual Turn (2019).

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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.Geetha Ramanathan is Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University, where she teaches and writes on comparative literature, film and women s studies, including feminist and African American film. Her most recent book is The Female in German Modernisms: The Visual Turn (2019).

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
147444069X
ISBN 13 
9781474440691
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
168
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