Losing Ground
1982
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Kathleen Collins (March 18, 1942 – September 18, 1988) (also known as Kathleen Conwell, Kathleen Conwell Collins or Kathleen Collins Prettyman) was an American poet, playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and educator from Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Fiction
- Writer, playwright, author, filmmaker, educator
- English
- March 18, 1942, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Kathleen Collins is a professor who studies retroelements, reverse transcriptases, and RNA biogenesis. She develops novel techniques for gene therapy and RNA-seq, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Nov 29, 2016 · Nov. 29, 2016. Share full article. Patricia Wall/The New York Times. When the filmmaker, playwright and fiction writer Kathleen Collins died of breast cancer in 1988, at 46, she left behind a...
Jan 29, 2019 · Jan. 29, 2019. Share full article. 1. Patricia Wall/The New York Times. The writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins died in 1988, at the age of 46 — young, brilliant and, for the most part,...
Apr 20, 2020 · The Theatre. Kathleen Collins’s Otherworldly Women. The writer and filmmaker’s subtle, harrowing unproduced plays deal with doubt, domestic confusion, and the persistent encroachments of...
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Feb 1, 2021 · Collins directed "Losing Ground" in 1982, one of the first feature films by a Black woman, but it remained obscure for decades. She will receive the Gotham Film and Media Institute's Tribute Icon award and be inducted into the National Film Registry.
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Feb 25, 2017 · Kathleen Collins was one of the first African-American women to direct a feature film, but her work wasn’t widely released before her death from cancer in 1988. Nearly 30 years later, her...
