Overview
- Examines Kasi Lemmons’ films through various frameworks of film theory
- Delves into Lemmons’ iconoclastic drive and post-soul aesthetic
- Illuminates Lemmons' highly personal, unique, and rare vision
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this edited volume, Kasi Lemmons, the first African-American woman auteur to solidly and steadily produce a full body of work in cinema—an oeuvre of quality, of note, of international recognition—will get the full film-studies treatment. This collection offers the first scholarly examination of Lemmons’ films through various frameworks of film theory, illuminating her highly personal, unique, and rare vision. In Lemmons’ worldview, the spiritual and the supernatural manifest in the natural, corporeal world. She subtly infuses her work with such images and narratives, owning her formalism, her modernist aesthetic, her cinematic preoccupations and her ontological leanings on race. Lemmons holds the varied experiences of African-American life before her lens—the ambitious bourgeoise, the spiritually lost, the ill and discarded, and the historically erased—and commits to capturing the nuances and differentiations, rather than perpetuating essentialized portrayals. This collection delves into Lemmons’ iconoclastic drive and post-soul aesthetic as emanations of her attitudes toward personal agency, social agency, and social justice.
Reviews
“This is a solid volume focusing on the work of Kasi Lemmons. This volume should have a very long shelf-life as it has not been embarked upon before by any researcher. Professor Wynter has taken up this mantle because she has recognized there is a dearth in scholarship pertaining to the work of Kasi Lemmons that is most deserving given the filmmaker’s body of esteemed work.” (R. Dianne Bartlow, PhD Author, Altruism and African-American Women in Contemporary Popular Music)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dianah Wynter is a Full Professor at California State University Northridge, USA, where she teaches Women Filmmakers, Directing, and Film as Literature. An Emmy-nominated director, she holds MFAs from the Yale School of Drama and the American Film Institute. Her publications include Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Post-Soul Cinema of Kasi Lemmons
Editors: Dianah Wynter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12870-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12869-1Published: 10 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12870-7Published: 09 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 129
Topics: Directing, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, American Cinema and TV, Media and Communication