Gaze regimes : film and feminisms in Africa / edited by Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mistry, Jyoti, editor.

Schuhmann, Antje, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--Social aspects--Africa.

Motion picture industry.

Feminism--Africa.

Feminism.

Motion pictures, African.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Africa.

Motion pictures.

Marginality, Social, in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg Wits University Press 2005

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women's stories in Africa and what governs the mechanics of making those films on the continent? The interviews with film practitioners such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Jihan El-Tahri, Anita Khanna, Isabel Noronhe, Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walsh demonstrate the contradictory points of departure of women in film - from their understanding of feminisms in relation to lived-experiences and the realpolitik of women working as cultural practitioners. The disciplines of gender studies, postcolonial theory, and film theory provide the framework for the book's essays. Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Nobunye Levin, Dorothee Wenner and Christina von Braun are some of the contributors who provide valuable context, analysis and insight into, among other things, the politics of representation, the role of film festivals and the collective and individual experiences of trauma and marginality which contribute to the layered and complex filmic responses of Africa's film practitioners.

Contents:

Introduction: By way of context and content

1 African Women in Cinema: An overview

2 'I am a feminist only in secret'

3 Staged Authenticity: Femininity in photography and film

4 'Power is in your own hands': Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements

5 Aftermath: A focus on collective trauma

6 Shooting Violence and Trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work

7 Puk Nini: A Filmic Instruction in Seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations

8 I am Saartjie Baartman

9 Filmmaking at the Margins of a Community: On co-producing Elelwani

10 On Collective Practice and Collected Reflections

11 'Cinema of resistance'

12 Dark and Personal

13 'Change? This might mean to shove a few men out'

14 Barakat! means Enough!

15 'Women, use the gaze to change reality'

16 Post-colonial Film Collaboration and Festival Politics

17 Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Local Notes:

Perfect bound.

ISBN:

1-86814-857-2

1-77614-165-2

1-86814-859-9

OCLC:

1016677722

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/oapen_626360

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access