@article{1454697,
      recid = {1454697},
      author = {Wynter, Dianah,},
      title = {The post-soul cinema of Kasi Lemmons /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {"With her debut as a filmmaker, Lemmons' Eve's Bayou was  both miracle and miraculous. The same can be said of this  richly deserved, thorough and scholarly examination of her  first five films." Angela Bassett, Actor/Filmmaker. "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 filmmakers  body of esteemed work." R. Dianne Bartlow, PhD Author,  Altruism and African-American Women in Contemporary Popular  Music. In this edited volume, Kasi Lemmons, the first  African-American woman auteur to solidly and steadily  produce a full body of work in cinemaan oeuvre of quality,  of note, of international recognitionwill 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 erasedand 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. 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1454697},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12870-7},
}