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A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) and 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 contribution to each of these canons. Exploring the philosophical aspects of Collins’s films and placing her in a genealogy of African American auteurs, Geetha Ramanathan argues that Collins uses film to integrate diverse elements of African American culture, showing how the medium can transform the visual and become a site of convergence for ideas on philosophy, otherness, art, aesthetics and the craft of filmmaking

African Americans in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Production and direction. --- Collins, Kathleen, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Direction of motion pictures --- Film-making (Motion pictures) --- Filmmaking (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture direction --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture production --- Movie-making --- Moviemaking --- Production of motion pictures --- Afro-Americans in motion pictures --- Negroes in moving-pictures --- Race films --- Production and direction --- Direction --- Collins Prettyman, Kathleen, --- Conwell, Kathleen, --- Prettyman, Kathleen Collins, --- Prettyman, Kathleen Conwell, --- Collins, Kathy, --- Prettyman, Kathleen Conwell Collins, --- Performing Arts --- Film --- Direction & Production