Afterlives of Kathleen Collins

L. H. Stallings is Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is author of A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South; Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures; and Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAnterior Life1. She Liked WritingLove Life2. Love, a Crisis of PossessionLife of the Mind3. Fifth Dimension CinemaMocambo Life4. Cinematic MarronageKarkinos Life5. Black Feminist Poethics of CancerConclusion: Dreams No Longer DeferredNotesReferencesIndex

An 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