Female authorship and the documentary image : theory, practice and aesthetics / edited by Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ulfsdotter, Boel, editor.

Backman Rogers, Anna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Documentary films.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practices. This book, like its twin volume "Female Authorship and Documentary Strategies", centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices. Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars now expand the theoretical and practical framework informing the current scholarship on documentary cinema, which has so far neglected questions of gender. "Female Authorship and the Documentary Image" engages with the relationship between female documentary filmmakers and the documentary image. With a thematic focus on the documentary image directly, within the more traditional arenas of theory and practice and especially within the context of gaze and author theory, the book also considers more philosophical questions of aesthetics, home and identity within the contexts of female subjectivity, globalisation and trauma. The book also includes a dialogue on two key photographers, Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence, as well as an interview with Taiwanese documentary filmmakers Singing Chen and Wuna Wu.

Contents:

Part 1 Documentary Practices

1 Women in the Director's Chair: The 'Female Gaze' in Documentary Film / Lisa French French, Lisa 9

2 New Day Films: Collective Aesthetics and the Collection / Elizabeth Coffman Coffman, Elizabeth, Erica Stein Stein, Erica 22

3 More Than One / Sharon Daniel Daniel, Sharon 40

Interview: 'The Final Projects of Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence' -A Dialogue between Elena Crippa and Anna Backman Rogers 66

Part 2 Documentary Theories

4 The Feminist Voice: Improvisation in Women's Autobiographical Filmmaking / Gabrielle McNally McNally, Gabrielle 75

5 Speaking About or Speaking Nearby? Documentary Practice and Female Authorship in the films of Kim Longinotto / Rona Murray Murray, Rona 90

6 A Politics of Nearness: Uses of Montage and Haptics in Documenting Cultural Experiences of Communities of India / Aparna Sbarma Sbarma, Aparna 107

Part 3 Female Authorship and Global Identities

7 The Other, The Same: Towards a Metamodern Poetics with Heddy Honigmann / Annelies van Noortwijk Noortwijk, Annelies van 127

8 The Memories of Belleville Baby: Autofiction as Evidence / Boel Ulfsdotter Ulfsdotter, Boel 144

9 To::For::By::About::With::From:: Towards Solid Women: On (not) Being Addressed by Tracey Moffatt's Moodeijt Yorgas / Sophie Mayer Mayer, Sophie 159

10 Constructing an Intimate Sphere through her Own Female Body: Naomi Kawase's Documentary Films / Wakae Nakane Nakane, Wakae 171

11 Celebrity/Activist/Photographer: Mia Farrow / Catherine Summerhayes Summerhayes, Catherine 186.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474419444

1474419445

OCLC:

992432795