{"product_id":"the-afterlives-of-kathleen-collins-9780253059017","title":"The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400611078487,"sku":"9780253059017","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253059017.jpg?v=1730471106","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-afterlives-of-kathleen-collins-9780253059017","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}