Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Among Europe's experimental films from the 1920s and 30s, perhaps none offers a more fascinating conjunction of psychoanalysis and representations of race than Borderline , the expressionist, interracial melodrama produced by the POOL group and directed by Kenneth Macpherson. The film starred Paul and Eslanda Robeson, imagist poet H. D., and her lesbian companion, Bryher. The POOL group derived from an artistic and domestic menage a trois among H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Bryher (Winifred Ellerman) , and writer-photographer Macpherson, who married Bryher to conceal his romantic involvement with H. D. in the late 20s. This
Author: Jean Walton
Institution: University of Rhode Island
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1522650766