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The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins

Author: Associate Professor L H Stallings

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780253059031

An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker. Although a visionary and influential Black filmmaker, Kathleen Collins (1942-88) has been largely overlooked by film critics and historians. Beginning with her short film The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy and her feature film, Losing Ground, Collins explored new dimensions of what narrative film could and should do. However, her achievements in filmmaking were part of a greater life project dedicated to studying the mind, consciousness, and the brain's unlimited potential to better our selves and our societies. Drawing on a host of private papers and films, L. H. Stallings offers a career biography and analysis of Collins that showcases her activism, innovation, and brilliance in effortlessly working across artistic genres. The Afterlife of Kathleen Collins successfully demonstrates why Kathleen Collins deserves a place of prominence not only in the history of Black cinema but among all filmmakers.

The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins

Author: L. H. Stallings

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0253059046

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An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker. Kathleen Collins (1942–88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginning with her short film The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy and her feature film Losing Ground, 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. The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life explores 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. The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins showcases 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. The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins definitively emphasizes the evolution of film and film studies that Collins makes possible for current and future generations of filmmakers.

The Divided States

Author: Laura J. Beard

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0299338800

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What is an “American” identity? The tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States since its inception. In The Divided States, leading scholars and critics argue that the US is, and has always been, a site where multiple national identities intersect in productive and challenging ways. Scrutinizing conflicting nationalisms and national identities, the authors ask, Whose stories get told and whose do not? Who or what promotes the idea of a unified national identity in the United States? How is the notion of a unified national identity disrupted? What myths and stories bind the US together? How representative are these stories? What are the counternarratives? And, if the idea of national homogeneity is a fallacy, what does tie us together as a nation? Working across auto/biography studies, American studies, and human geography—all of which deal with the current interest in competing narratives, “alternative facts,” and accountability—the essays engage in and contribute to critical conversations in classrooms, scholarship, and the public sphere. The authors draw from a variety of fields, including anthropology; class analysis; critical race theory; diasporic, refugee, and immigration studies; disability studies; gender studies; graphic and comix studies; Indigenous studies; linguistics; literary studies; sociology; and visual culture. And the genres under scrutiny include diary, epistolary communication, digital narratives, graphic narratives, literary narratives, medical narratives, memoir, oral history, and testimony. This fresh and theoretically engaged volume will be relevant to anyone interested in the multiplicity of voices that make up the US national narrative.

Incomplete

Author: Alix Beeston

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0520381467

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This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects--abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended--as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply researched and creatively conceived chapters, scholars join with film practitioners in approaching the unfinished film as an ideal site for revealing the lived experiences, practical conditions, and institutional realities of women's film production across historical periods and national borders. Incomplete recovers projects and practices marginalized in film industries and scholarship alike, while also showing how feminist filmmakers have cultivated incompletion as an aesthetic strategy. Objects of loss and of possibility, incomplete films raise profound historiographical and ethical questions about the always unfinished project of film history, film spectatorship, and film studies.

Black Women Directors

Author: Christina N. Baker

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-03-18

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 197881335X

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Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the United States, from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era, to the documentarians who sought to highlight the voices and struggles of Black women, and the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood. Applying a Black feminist perspective, this book examines the ways that Black women filmmakers have made a way for themselves and their work by resisting the dominant cultural expectations for Black women and for the medium of film, as a whole.

Women and New Hollywood

Author: Aaron Hunter

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2023-05-12

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1978821816

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The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of “New Hollywood” directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman offered idiosyncratic visions of what movies could be. Yet the auteurist discourse hailing these directors as the sole authors of their films has obscured the important creative roles women played in the 1970s American film industry. Women and New Hollywood revises our understanding of this important era in American film by examining the contributions that women made not only as directors, but also as screenwriters, editors, actors, producers, and critics. Including essays on film history, film texts, and the decade’s film theory and criticism, this collection showcases the rich and varied cinematic products of women’s creative labor, as well as the considerable barriers they faced. It considers both women working within and beyond the Hollywood film industry, reconceptualizing New Hollywood by bringing it into dialogue with other American cinemas of the 1970s. By valuing the many forms of creative labor involved in film production, this collection offers exciting alternatives to the auteurist model and new ways of appreciating the themes and aesthetics of 1970s American film.

Happy Family

Author: Kathleen Collins

Publisher: les Éditions du Portrait

Published: 2021-02-19

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 2371200301

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L’émancipation des Afro-Américains, des femmes, la liberté d’être et la conscience de soi qui jaillissent des années 60-70 promettent des lendemains qui chantent. Mais les stéréotypes, les codes sociaux, les traditions qui ont construit et nourrissent le racisme et le sexisme, depuis si longtemps, ne s’éteindront pas en un jour. Happy Family, le dernier livre de Kathleen Collins, plonge le lecteur dans les relations amoureuses, familiales et amicales de ses personnages. Et comme dans Journal d’une femme noire, Kathleen Collins explore, à travers une multiplication de points de vue, les mondes intérieurs et complexes de ses personnages, nourris de culture et de rencontres, en butte à un monde extérieur souvent séduit par les simplifications. Se libérer du regard de l’autre et devenir un être singulier et agissant, voilà l’horizon des écrits de Kathleen Collins. Et ce malgré la difficulté et parfois l’impossibilité de le contempler. L’écriture vive et sincère de Kathleen Collins puise toute sa beauté, sa poésie et sa puissance dans ce que la différence produit sur l’autre, aussi petite soit-elle. Lire Kathleen Collins est une énorme chance, peut-être encore plus aujourd’hui, à un moment où l’on réhabilite le travail des femmes noires dans l’Histoire. Une voix étincelante d’intelligence, impressionnante de ténacité et d’intégrité. Nathalie Crom. Télérama | Trois T.

Notes from a Black Woman's Diary

Author: Kathleen Collins

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0062800965

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Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short-story collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Said Zadie Smith, “To be this good and yet to be ignored is shameful, but her rediscovery is a great piece of luck for us.” That rediscovery continues in Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary, which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author’s talent. The compilation is anchored by more of Collins’s striking short stories, which explore the ways in which relationships both are formed and come undone. Also collected here is the work Collins wrote for the screen and stage, including the screenplay of her pioneering film Losing Ground and the script for The Brothers, which powerfully illuminate the particular joys, challenges, and heartbreaks rendered by the African American experience. And finally, it is in Collins’s raw and prescient diaries that her nascent ideas about race, gender, marriage, and motherhood first play out on the page. By turns empowering, exuberant, sexy, and poignant, Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary is a brilliant compendium of the works of an inimitable talent, and a rich portrait of a writer hard at work.

Pleading the Blood

Author: Associate Professor Christopher Sieving

Publisher:

Published: 2022-02

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780253059208

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The definitive look at one of the most important Black art cinema films and original filmmakers of the 1970s. Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (1973) has across the decades attained a sizable cult following among African American cinema devotees, art house aficionados, and horror fans, thanks to its formal complexity and rich allegory. Pleading the Blood is the first full-length study of this cult classic. Ganja & Hess was withdrawn almost immediately after its New York premiere by its distributor because Gunn's poetic re-fashioning of the vampire genre allegedly failed to satisfy the firm's desire for a by-the-numbers "blaxploitation" horror flick for quick sell-off in the urban market. Its current status as one of the classic works of African American cinema has recently been confirmed by the Blu-ray release of its restored version, by its continued success in screenings at repertory houses, museums, and universities, and by an official remake, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014), directed by Spike Lee, one of the original picture's longtime champions. Pleading the Blood draws on Gunn's archived papers, screenplay drafts, and storyboards, as well as interviews with the living major creative participants to offer a comprehensive, absorbing account of the influential movie and its highly original filmmaker.