Books in the Visionaries: Thinking Through Female Filmmakers series

As the first book-length study of the films of Mia Hansen-Love, this volume introduces her cinema to both an academic and a general readership.

A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with 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.