{"product_id":"the-afterlives-of-kathleen-collins-a-black-woman-filmmakers-search-for-new-life-paperback-softback-9780253059031","title":"The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins; A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253059031","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Afterlives of Kathleen Collins\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eL. H. Stallings (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253059031\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e212 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w illus - 1 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.322 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential addition to monographs on black independent filmmakers who emerged from the 1960s Civil Rights movement, such as Charles Burnett and Julie Dash, as well as woman film artists in general.\u003c\/p\u003e - Tama Lynne Hamilton-Wray, coeditor of New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Uncharted Themes and Alternative Representations \u003cp\u003eL.H. Stallings' \u003ci\u003eAfterlives of Kathleen Collins \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the life, life's work, and posthumous significance of Kathleen Collins as a filmmaker. This monograph masterfully weaves together biopic, speculative fiction, film theory and archival film study to uncover Collins at the forefront of black women's filmmaking. Where much of the scholarship on black film—fiction and nonfiction—focuses on masculinists works and directors, Stallings work is groundbreaking in that it treats the body (and afterlife) of a black woman's work with a critical attention we have yet to see.\u003c\/p\u003e - Jasmine Cobb, author of Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKathleen Collins (1942–88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginning with her short film \u003ci\u003eThe Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy \u003c\/i\u003eand her feature film \u003ci\u003eLosing Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Afterlives of Kathleen Collins \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Afterlives of Kathleen Collins\u003c\/i\u003e definitively emphasizes the evolution of film and film studies that Collins makes possible for current and future generations of filmmakers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eAnterior Life\u003cbr\u003e1. She Liked Writing\u003cbr\u003eLove Life\u003cbr\u003e2. Love, a Crisis of Possession\u003cbr\u003eLife of the Mind\u003cbr\u003e3. Fifth Dimension Cinema\u003cbr\u003eMocambo Life\u003cbr\u003e4. Cinematic Marronage\u003cbr\u003eKarkinos Life\u003cbr\u003e5. Black Feminist Poethics of Cancer\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Dreams No Longer Deferred\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525362643224,"sku":"9780253059031","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-afterlives-of-kathleen-collins-a-black-woman-filmmakers-search-for-new-life-paperback-softback-9780253059031","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}