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Kathleen Collins The Black Essai Film /

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A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with 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 cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramanathan, Geetha (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Series:Visionaries (Edinburgh University Press)
Subjects:
Performing arts.
Arts du spectacle.
performing arts (discipline)
Performing Arts / Film & Video / Direction & Production.
Performing arts
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: The New York Black Independents; 2:The Black Essai Film; 3: Ambiguities of Auteurship; 4: The Magical Marvellous Modern; 5: Sacred Doubles; 6: Film Across Drama and Art; 7: Black Feminist Culture and Black Masculinity; Afterword; List of Films; Bibliography.