"Nightmare of the Uncoordinated White-Folk": Race, Psychoanalysis, and Borderline

Jean Walton

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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

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