Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn 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.
-- Tama Lynne Hamilton-Wray, coeditor of New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Uncharted Themes and Alternative Representations
L.H. Stallings' Afterlives of Kathleen Collins explores 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.
-- Jasmine Cobb, author of Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Anterior Life
1. She Liked Writing
Love Life
2. Love, a Crisis of Possession
Life of the Mind
3. Fifth Dimension Cinema
Mocambo Life
4. Cinematic Marronage
Karkinos Life
5. Black Feminist Poethics of Cancer
Conclusion: Dreams No Longer Deferred
Notes
References
Index
